Jenny Lower – LA Weekly The Game Against Bobby Fischer, a new play written by Dennis Richard and directed by Gregory Fuller at the Secret Rose Theatre, purports to enter the troubled mind of renowned American World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer (Robert Weiner) as he approaches his final days in his adopted home of Reykjavik, … Read more
On March 16, 2015, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle announced its winners and special awards for excellence in Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura County theater in the year 2014. Announcements were made at a ceremony held at the Beyond the Stars Palace in Glendale, hosted by Dixie Longate (Dixie’s Tupperware Party) with musical direction … Read more
Bob Verini – Variety Writers of crime fiction are rarely as brutal or twisted as the characters they create. But meet Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995), by general agreement a foul-mouthed misanthrope who spent decades detailing the psychotic narcissism lurking in humanity’s dark heart. Read more… Hoyt Hilsman – Huffington Post Crime novelist Patricia Highsmith was renowned for her intense … Read more
Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology was first published in 1915, and is probably referenced in just about every grade or middle-school American literature text ever adopted. Read more… Now running through March 22.
This year’s LADCC AWARDS CEREMONY honoring the best of theater in Los Angeles in 2014 will be held on MARCH 16, 2015 at BEYOND THE STARS PALACE, 417 N. Brand Boulevard, Glendale, California 91203. The event will begin at 6:30 pm and run to midnight. PLEASE JOIN US. Tickets are available at brownpapertickets.com or at crixawards2015@gmail.com. We hope … Read more
David C. Nichols – LA Times A mesmerizing blend of magical realism and poetic social comment courses through “Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea,” Nathan Alan Davis’ meta-theatrical parable about an idealistic African American teen in search of his heritage. Read more… Now playing through March 29.
Don Shirley – LA Observed Alarm bells are going off in the LA theater community about Actors’ Equity’s proposal to require most productions to pay Equity actors the minimum wage – soon. Reading some of the dire predictions, it would be easy to surmise that this step would doom most of LA theater – or … Read more
Steven Leigh Morris – LA Weekly “If you want to give it away, get out of the union!” I’ve heard that cry, all the way from the East Coast. I teach for Cal State University and I belong to a union I love – the California Faculty Association. I walked into the theater department office … Read more
Bob Verini – Arts In LA Book musicals and musical revues are two different animals, and it’s a rare theater songwriter or team that can crank out both. Many of the very best— Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Stephen Sondheim, and Frank Loesser come to mind—are responsible for brilliantly unified scores for world-class musical … Read more
Paul Birchall – Stage and Cinema In his solo show, playwright Nicholas Guest describes his life and travels around the world. He’s accompanied by Hillary Smith on the cello and by Tony Carafone on the guitar (in the play, not his travels) – and they turn out to be a helpful pair, too, because Guest … Read more