Falcon Theatre

LITTLE DRUMMER BOWIE at the Falcon Theatre

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Terry Morgan – Stage Raw A Troubadour Theatre Company holiday show has become a beloved local tradition, often selling out shortly after the dates are announced. There’s good reason for this: Troubie shows are reliably hilarious and fun, combining the classic music of a particular artist with the interpretation of a well-known story. Read more… Rob … Read more

PARALLEL LIVES at the Falcon Theatre

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Paul Birchall  – Stage Raw The spirits of Mo Gaffney and Kathy Najimy cast a long shadow over director Jenny Sullivan’s mostly straightforward production of this one time off-Broadway hit.  (Gaffney and Najimi were the original writer/performers of this two-person comic show, which won an Obie in 1989 and was later produced on HBO in … Read more

THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF TOLUCA LAKE: THE MUSICAL at the Falcon Theatre

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Neal Weaver  – Stage Raw When critic Walter Kerr reviewed the musical Zorba, he observed that it was the only musical he’d ever seen where he actively hated the chorus. This show, with book, music and lyrics by Molly Bell, is an intimate musical so it has no chorus, but the characters are, if not hateful, … Read more

SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO MOTOWN at the Falcon Theatre

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Pauline Adamek  – Stage Raw The talented Troubadour Theatre Company once again presents their annual holiday-themed show featuring their signature brand of madcap nonsense. Their tried-and-tested formula: Take a Christmas story, add some pop songs and send it up. Read more… Now running through January 17.

THE SNOW QUEEN – Troubadour Theater Company at the Falcon Theatre

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Bob Verini –   Arts In LA As surely as the Rockettes annually turn out to Occupy Radio City, Troubadour Theater Company uses December to command Burbank’s Falcon Theatre for a celebratory holiday mash-up of some sort of Christmas tale and a particular pop songbook. The Snow QUEEN, the sixth such expression of wassail I’ve encountered, is … Read more

A OR B? at the Falcon Theatre

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Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly Ken Levine, who wrote the new play A or B?, has spent decades in television, writing, producing and consulting, mostly on sitcoms. His credits include the iconic M*A*S*H, where he was head writer. M*A*S*H was smart, entertaining and told Americans a thing or two about who we are.  Read more… Now running through November … Read more

THE WESTERN UNSCRIPTED at the Falcon Theatre

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Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Improvising a new play every night is Impro Theatre’s hallmark promise, whether they’re parodying  Chekhov, Shakespeare, Jane Austen or, in the case of their latest production at the Falcon Theatre, the American Western genre. Read more… Now running through October 5.

ABBAMEMNON at the Falcon Theatre

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David C. Nichols – LA Times Aeschylus meets Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid in “ABBAMEMNON,” the latest deconstruction from Troubadour Theater Company. The classic Greek playwright, Swedish pop group and incomparable troupe may never be quite the same again, and neither will audiences. Read more… Steven Leigh Morris  – LA Weekly There are no sly topical winks … Read more

THE LAST ACT OF LILKA KADISON at the Falcon Theatre

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David C. Nichols –  LA Times That rarefied place where craft, collaboration and content create theatrical poetry is everywhere in “The Last Act of Lilka Kadison” at the Falcon Theatre. Indeed, this delicately potent West Coast premiere, a co-production between the Falcon and Chicago’s Tony-winning Lookingglass Theatre Company, often seems to be composing itself before … Read more

WALKIN’ IN A WINTER ONE-HIT-WONDERLAND at the Falcon Theatre

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Bob Verini – ArtsInLA The 10th-annual holiday show from Troubadour Theater Company, Walkin’ in a Winter One-Hit-Wonderland, proves to be the occasion for walkin’ down Memory Lane with the previous nine. There’s plenty of reminiscing; video footage of past productions; and in-jokey references to company members and past characters that invest the tight (an intermissionless … Read more