Americans Akimbo
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage American Idiot,’ ‘Kimberly Akimbo,’ ‘A Girl Grows Wings,’ ‘Heading Into Night,’ two classics, notes on eight new plays. Read more…
Don Shirley
Give Me Some ‘Skin,’ A Noise Within
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Skin of Our Teeth plus comments on Civility of Albert Cashier, TH IR DS, Memnon, Cyrano de Berqerac, Duel Reality, Dragon Lady, God Will Do the Rest, Clarkston, Kill Move Paradise. Read more…
Comparing ‘Company’ and ‘Clue’. Alfresco adventures in LA theaters.
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Tartuffe: Born Again, Wendy’s Peter Pan, Winter’s Tale’ ‘As You Like it’ are the alfresco shows also includes ‘Keely and Du.’ ‘Dido in Idaho.’ Tom Jacobson’s ‘Crevasse’ and ‘Bauhaus Project’. Felder’s ‘Rachmaninoff and the Tsar’. Plus a brief mention of ’39 Steps’. Read more…
Designs for ‘Living’, for a premie, for making old Hollywood more ‘Chinese.’
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Abe and Mary sing! Bye-bye ‘Planet Earth.’ ‘The Outsider.’ Putin’s plans for playwrights. Read more…
Two 100-proof spoofs. A dynamic ‘Doubtfire.’ Two music-man musicals.
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage ‘DurAntony,’ the Montalbán, ‘Reefer,’ ‘Strange Loop,’ ‘Jelly’s Jam,’ ‘Spy…Rehab’. Read more…
A shocking shrinkage of stage reviews at LA Times. CTG’s ‘One’-size season.
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…
‘Ham,’ meet “Hedley.’ Plus plays looking forward, plays looking back
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…
Should plays imitate TV? Bill Bushnell, R.I.P.
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage One of the Good Ones,’ a savory ‘Stew,’ ‘The AllStore,’ and the late LATC leader. Read more…
Noise nabs 15 noms, searches within ‘Sweeney’
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…
LAist should start a “Theater Week”
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…