Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Ham,’ meet ‘Hedley.’ Plus plays looking forward, plays looking back. Also includes comments on Dinner with Friends, Kairos, High Maintenance, Could I Have This Dance?, Funny Girl, Into the Breeches, Power & Light, Stalin’s Master Class. Read more…
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage One of the Good Ones,’ a savory ‘Stew,’ ‘The AllStore,’ and the late LATC leader. Read more…
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage The importance of A Noise Within, as reflected in the LADCC nominations. Plus ‘Fatherland,’ ‘Black Cypress Bayou,’ ‘Winter’s Tale,’ ‘Marilyn, Mom &’ more. Read more…
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage If LAist wants to cover LA’s performing arts with any depth and discernment, the LA stage scene would be a good place to start. Plus reactions to ‘Kate’, ‘POTUS’, a ‘Mystic Pizza’ musical, ‘Sukkot’ ‘Middle of the World’. Read more…
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Plus four unusual holiday shows, including the Troubies’ ‘White (Album) Christmas’ Read more…
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Will Musk enter ‘Us’? ‘Castle’, ‘Inherit,’ ‘Spring,’ ‘Freight,’ ‘Radical’. Read more…
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Two concepts of ‘dreams’ are among theater’s most fertile narrative components. Right now, you can see sterling examples of both of these ‘dream’ genres in LA-area theaters. Eight productions are featured in this edition of Angeles Stage. Read more…
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Fourth walls are tumbling down. Yes, those invisible barriers between actors and audience are increasingly breached in contemporary theater. Read more…
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage A Noise Within got a jump on other midsize companies by opening its fall season last Saturday — before Labor Day — with Lydia Diamond’s 2006 adaptation of Toni Morrison’s 1970 novel “The Bluest Eye”. I missed its first LA County production, in Santa Monica in 2011, so I was … Read more
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Greater LA is currently the home of two new and complex scripts that examine hot-button life-or-death arenas, from refreshingly unexpected perspectives. Not surprisingly, the LA Times has yet to review either of them. Read more…