David C. Nichols – LA Times Family dysfunction, that age-old staple of the dramatic canon, permeates the walking wounded that populate “The House of Yes” in a respectable, albeit still-gelling 25th anniversary revival at the Zephyr. Read more… Now running through June 14.
Bob Verini – Stage Raw John Logan’s Red has been one of the most produced plays of the last few years, with over 40 mountings at major theaters coast to coast, usually reviewed in deserved superlatives. Yet in all the column inches devoted to the incisive two-hander, few if any of my critical colleagues have made reference … Read more
Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly It’s hard to imagine a more tender, more lyrical or more captivating work than this three-person piece from Kulunka Teatro, a company originating from Spain’s Basque Country. Read more… Now running through June 7.
Margaret Gray – LA Times When women have babies, expectations are born at the same time – dream children, made up of assumptions and hopes, that grow up alongside the real ones. Read more… Now running through May 31.
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.