Terry Morgan – ArtsBeatLA It’s late December, when the events of the year are summed up and judged by the media, and why should I withhold praise? Every year has amazing theater in Los Angeles – sometimes a bit more, sometimes less – but there’s always terrific stuff. 2024 was no different. We had magnificent … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA I don’t think any December I was in town since 2002 has gone by that these zany guys didn’t lift my spirits and ward off my usual sense of holiday humbuggery. Matt Walker and his willing disciples knock their performances into the stratosphere year after year, selling out every show … Read more
Terry Morgan – ArtsBeatLA Although new plays can be exciting and are crucial to the continuing vitality of theatre, I’m especially fond of older works, the more obscure the better. It’s cheap time travel, immersing oneself in a long-past culture, and a reminder that in many ways we’re not that different than those artists in … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA In this mess of a world we try to navigate on a daily basis, there are two universal gifts offered us in our lives that can heal. One is art; the other is love. Samuel D. Hunter’s new play is proof both are what we need to make our tenuous … Read more
Terry Morgan – ArtsBeatLA Thornton Wilder’s 1942 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Skin of Our Teeth, is an assuredly odd duck. It’s eighty-two years old but still seems postmodern with its frequent fourth-wall breaking, playfulness with time and use of characters as symbols. Its main subject is how mankind, represented here by the Antrobus (Greek for … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA The truth is—and it has always been so—that art heals. From the ancient days of Greek drama, when a shrewdly disguised political message is slyly presented through the lens of outrageous comedy, it is a feat to be admired. Read more… Terry Morgan – ArtsBeatLA In my fifty-seven years of … Read more
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 8.8 out of 10! Great Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! Listen more… Terry Morgan – ArtsBeatLA Fans of history can’t help but wish they were there for private, unrecorded conversations between famed historical figures, to be the proverbial fly on the wall and gain insight into what … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Cowabunga, my humor-starved overheated moondoggies, understand this one fact of nature: no one spoofs those ridiculously cheesy early-60s surfer flicks quite as perfectly as Charles Busch—and this smart and colorful remounting of his 1987 off-Broadway hit “Psycho Beach Party” could not possibly be more swellsville, bros. Read more… Katie Buenneke … 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
Terry Morgan – ArtsBeatLA If the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, perhaps the road to freedom is paved with righteous anger? Henrik Ibsen may have thought so when he wrote his proto-feminist play, A Doll’s House, in 1879. That piece went on to become a foundational part of the western theater canon, … Read more