Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Despite its subtitle, The Godfather is the inspiration for Theatre Movement Bazaar’s latest creation. Their show is billed as a theatrical collage, an appropriate description for a somewhat scattershot piece that features chunks of perceptive writing by Richard Alger and several highly watchable performances but doesn’t quite come together with the vision … Read more
Bob Verini – Arts In LA In Not That Jewish we encounter something distinctly unexpected: a first-person memoir by a former standup comic that actually feels like a real play. Read more… Paul Birchall – Stage Raw If you like your humor with a Kosher sensibility, Monica Piper’s delightful, if lightweight solo show is far … Read more
Neal Weaver – Stage Raw Playwright Jessica Dickey sets her comedy in the odd and largely unfamiliar world of Civil War Re-enactors, who have spent their day staging a recreation of Pickett’s Charge, which shifted the tides of war during the Battle of Gettysburg. Read more…
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Violet, which premiered on Broadway in 1997, is the kind of musical play that should speak powerfully to anyone who’s ever been scapegoated, or been on the outside looking in. But for a number of reasons it isn’t nearly as emotionally compelling as one might expect. Read more… Now running through … Read more
Bob Verini – Arts In LA Angelenos have two late-spring opportunities to experience the staged version of Green Day’s—and they’ll be able to do so outside of the context of Michael Mayer’s original three-stories-high, multimedia-thick, turbocharged original. Read more… Now running through June 7.
Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly Imported from New York City, The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side takes place in the present day but harks back to the counterculture movement of the late 1960s and early 70s. Read more… Now running through June 14.
Dany Margolies – Arts In LA So, Picasso and Einstein walk into a bar. In this tiny bar in Paris in 1904, they begin to ponder what the 20th century might be like. They suspect their individual contributions will change the world. Read more… Now running through June 14.
Neal Weaver – Stage Raw Young and personable Bill (Bernie Zilinskas) works in the sales department of Seagram’s Whiskey. He has just purchased a suburban condo, and he’s waiting for the delivery of his furniture, and for his actress wife (Stephanie Erb) to join him. Read more… Margaret Gray – LA Times For introverts of a … Read more
Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in 80 Days has been made into films, most notably twice: in 1956 in Mike Todd’s celebrity-studded epic with David Niven and Cantinflas, and in Disney’s 2004 version with Steve Coogan and Jackie Chan. The novel has been adapted for the theater several times, along with this version by … Read more
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Let’s start by mentioning the praiseworthy elements in this problematic piece, presented by Teatro Luna, an all-Latina company out of Chicago. Read more… Now running through May 17.