Jonas Schwartz – Theatermania Julia Child’s charismatic personality is explored in Claudia Shear’s new play The Recipe, a comedy with too few laughs and too few fresh insights into the life of the iconic chef. Lisa Peterson helms a breezy production that keeps the action moving, but her direction of its lead ultimately sinks it. … Read more
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 9 out of 10! Exceptional Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! Listen more… Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix A Noise Within theatre company has a knack for making old plays seem new. William Shakespeare’s historical tragedy “Richard III” is no exception, not least due to casting Ann Noble … Read more
Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix Rising playwright Beth Hyland’s “Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia,” having its world premiere at Geffen Playhouse, is just what you’d want in a new play — ambitious and compelling in a well staged and performed production. Bringing to life poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes as they affect a current writer … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA The accessibility of Suzy Eddie Izzard’s performance as Shakespeare’s most notorious prince is unquestionably on display in her jarringly unique delivery of Hamlet’s most well-known speech, the character’s often caricatured third soliloquy, presented simply and with great warmth and humanity instead of spouted in grandly theatrical style filled with rage, … Read more
Ed Rampell – Hollywood Progressive British socialist J.B. Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls” is a clever dramatization of the British class system. Especially worth seeing as staged at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills. Read more… Harker Jones – BroadwayWorld A classic of mid-20th-century English theater, Priestley’s script has complexity. He gives each of his characters … Read more
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 7.9 out of 10! Above Average! Listen here… Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA There’s no tap dancing, no flashy special effects, no Merman-style belt numbers; it’s just a quiet and immensely relatable story with a haunting, gossamer score celebrating the wondrous endurance of true love and its ability … Read more
Edward Hong – The Nerds Of Color For better or worse, one of the oldest tropes in Asian American identity stories is often the generational & cultural divide between the immigrant parents and their American-born children. Ankita Raturi‘s नेहा & Neel, now having its world premiere at Latino Theater Company in collaboration with Artists At … Read more
Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix “Parallel Process” is thus a gem of a play—well-written and provocative with excellent acting and solid staging, including lighting by Michael Blendermann, sound by Jack Sherman and costuming by Sophia Clark. Read more…
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 8.9 out of 10! Excellent Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! Listen here… Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix While the play is genuinely affecting about the lives of these intrepid brothers, emotional nuance sometimes doesn’t land, perhaps also because the play’s pastiche structure precludes a sense of story. … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA It’s hard to imagine Jonathan Spector’s hilarious and uncannily newsworthy Tony-winning play wasn’t written in the past few months since our current disastrous and inefficient regime took over our government and started on its mission to kill us all. Read more… Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix At once pointed … Read more