Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move Open Fist Theatre Company has a winner on its hands in, BAT BOY THE MUSICAL, starring (recent NYU graduate) Ben Raanan in the title role, and an all-around stupendously talented cast for this homegrown revival that made it’s debut, once upon a time, right here in Los Angeles. … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Starmites reviewed by Rob Stevens – In what I think may be the LA-area premiere, Open Fist Theatre Company in Atwater is currently presenting a lively production that really rocks the intimate space. Read more… Socks Whitmore – Stage Raw In 2023, the demand for nostalgia is higher than … Read more
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Plus ‘Desert Stories for Lost Girls” at LATC, ‘Babe’ and ‘To the Bone’ in Atwater. Dan Sullivan, the former LA Times theater critic who ushered LA readers into the modern theatrical world, died last week at the age of 86. It’s time to remember him, before moving on to current … Read more
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Writer/director Catherine Butterfield’s women-centered dramedy is set in a working-class community south of Boston, where two sisters of Irish-Catholic extraction, Kelly (Tisha Terrasini-Banker) and Maureen (Amanda Weier), share a house once owned and occupied by their grandmother. The place is a throwback to a distant past, its walls replete with … Read more
Terry Morgan – Artsbeat LA When I told people I was going to see a new production of Sarah’s Ruhl’s play, In the Next Room, I received a series of blank stares, but when I included its subtitle, or the vibrator play, I saw instant comprehension. Sex gets people’s attention. Read more… Tracey Paleo – Gia on the … Read more