Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw As with the staging of any classic, Misalliance comes with its particular set of challenges —notably, rising above the period conventions, literary language, and, in Shaw’s case, a plethora of lengthy monologues that deal with a host of paradoxes about love, gender roles, the freedom of women, parents and children, … Read more
Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix While the production could have probably done without the garish WWI military Follies number “Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat,” especially given the current global conflicts, perhaps Fanny would agree that the show must go on, and Barbie might have enjoyed a mustachioed Fanny as the defeated Kaiser. After all, there may be some … Read more
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Plus comments on ‘Body’s Midnight,’ ‘Misalliance,’ ‘Hitler’s Tasters,’ ‘Pang Spa,’ LTC season, ‘North Country,’ ‘Topsy Turvy,’ SCR’s premieres. Read more…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA This is one of the first theatrical responses to the pandemic, an experience that took such a huge chunk out of our lives and as so, presented in the usual-unusual modus operandi for which the Actors’ Gang has become known, nothing and no one is left without a voice, from … Read more
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Patrick Chavis – The Orange Curtain Review The OC premiere of ALMA at the Chance Theater delivers a profoundly authentic and nuanced depiction of a first-generation immigrant Mexican family. The narrative, woven through the intricate bond of a mother and daughter, serves as a poignant reflection of the real-life experiences of countless immigrant families, inviting … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Promising new playwright Laura Stribling employs a fascinating device, seamlessly and innovatively melding history and fiction as two real-life groundbreaking astronomers and author/poet/abolitionist/suffragette Julia Ward Howe are presented as characters interacting with some equally interesting fictional women beaten down by the inequities of being a member of what was long … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Through the bleakness and hardship, there’s an omnipresent glimmer of hope the threads throughout Conor McPherson’s brilliant Girl from North Country as a stepped-upon group of tyrannized survivors of the Great Depression fight to discover what it is they want in their lives and how they can pull themselves up … Read more
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw The power of the storytelling ignites in the performances of Robledo as an angry and impassioned Don Jesus, Monte Escalante as a magical teller of fortunes who can straddle life and death, Brown as the sly, sensual Bethena and Guerra as the German-Jewish professor who sponsors Juventino, having himself survived … Read more
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw In American Mariachi, José Cruz González’s new play directed by José Luis Valenzuela, a group of Mexican American women rebel against the macho mindset of their husbands and fathers when they strive to form a mariachi band, an enterprise traditionally reserved for men. Read more… Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre … Read more