Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 9.1 out of 10! Exceptional Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! Listen more… Edward Hong – The Nerds Of Color John Anthony Loffredo’s Frou-Frou: A Menagerie of Sorts, which just had its world premiere at Boston Court Pasadena, is an extraordinary piece of theatre unlike any other where not … Read more
Jonas Schwartz – Theatermania The play’s real star is Jamie Harrison and his eye-deceiving illusions. Even in the condensed version, actors flip upside down, get sucked through tiny boxes, change costumes (by Katrina Lindsay) in a snap, and shoot fire from their wands. Read more… Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA The star has to be … Read more
Patrick Chavis – The Orange Curtain Review One More Production’s End of the Rainbow boasts an explosive musical bender from lead actress Nicole Cassesso that does not let go until the curtain closes. This is why we go to the theater, ladies and gentlemen and everyone in between. Read more…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Although I appreciated the dark humor of Audrey Cefaly’s script and am always ready to get lost in imaginative and skewed explorations into bending reality onstage, the promising magical aspects and quirkiness never gels with the subject of indescribable trauma and healing by finding someone who can (here literally) embrace … Read more
Patrick Chavis – The Orange Curtain Review Curtis Theatre and Southgate Productions put on a jukebox musical with a beating heart and performed it oh… so… beautifully. Boasting some of Orange County’s upcoming musical talent, this was undeniably one of the best musicals to come out of the Curtis in years. Read more…
Patrick Chavis – The Orange Curtain Review Some of the same magic from the Oscar-winning film and a little more – so steamy you might need to wipe your glasses. Romance is heating up at the Maverick just in time for February. Read more…
Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move I’ll be honest. I’d never seen the show before. And, I was seriously doubting I was going to be able to sit through another hour and a half of a farce about a play rehearsal going badly awry. But the second curtain in this three-act was such a … Read more
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 8.5 out of 10! Great Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! Listen here… F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw First produced last July for two nights only as part of the She Arts LA Festival, playwright Lisa Kenner Grissom’s two-hander, Here Comes the Night, has been restaged by Moving Arts with a … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA I kept thinking during the performance what it must have been like for Guillermo Cienfuegos to read Will Arbery’s densely absurd yet hauntingly topical script for the first time. It would be hard to imagine the idea of directing such an idiosyncratic piece of theatrical indulgence could have been anything … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA This is one of the supernaturally-inclined Steve Yockey’s creepiest plays and certainly one of the most unsettling in another near-perfect partnership with director Ann Hearn Toblowsky, who so obviously “gets” him bigtime, and the unstoppably brave folks at the Road Theatre who never flinch attempting something risky. Read me… Tracey … Read more