Pauline Adamek

TIMESHARE at the Eclectic Company Theatre

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Pauline Adamek  – Stage Raw Steve B. Green’s black comedy Timeshare is set in the cutthroat world of high-pressure sales, and while some thematic similarities to Glengarry Glen Ross can be seen, don’t expect any David Mamet-style pyrotechnics. Read more… David C. Nichols – LA Times I am a professional salesman. I am a professional salesman.” So runs, with drolly … Read more

SAFE AT HOME: AN EVENING WITH ORSON BEAN at Pacific Resident Theatre

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Pauline Adamek  – Stage Raw “There’s a danger with one-man shows. What if you don’t like the performer? You’re screwed.” I’m paraphrasing, but this is a sentiment that Orson Bean articulates early into his own one-man show. The ironic implications just hang in the air, unanswered. Before and after this line, however, Bean’s efforts indicate … Read more

SEVEN SPOTS ON THE SUN at the Theatre at Boston Court

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Pauline Adamek  – ArtsBeatLA Martín Zimmerman’s one-act drama Seven Spots on the Sun explores the impulse of revenge, and the notion of redemption, against the backdrop of a horrifying civil war. The lives of two couples in two separate (but nearby) South American villages are presented as mirror images. Read more… Margaret Gray – LA Times We … Read more

APPROPRIATE at the Mark Taper Forum

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Les Spindle –  Edge on the Net In “Appropriate,” the initial conventionality in introducing the characters and basic storyline elicits raucous and sardonic laughs, as the depth of resentments among the siblings and their family members gradually come to light. Yet, there’s far more than garden-variety family baggage afoot here, Read more… Pauline Adamek  – ArtsBeatLA … Read more

THE GHOULMASTER’S HAUNTED PLAYHOUSE at the Hudson Theatre Mainstage

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Pauline Adamek  – Stage Raw Brimming with imagination, humor and macabre themes, The Ghoulmaster’s Haunted Playhouse is a high-concept and highly inventive cabaret production expressly created for the Halloween season.  Read more… Now running through October 31.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC at the Ahmanson Theatre

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Dany Margolies  –  Arts In LA First of all, this is indeed your father’s The Sound of Music, in its national tour now launching here. The stage version birthed the film, which retained much of the theatrical book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.  Read more… … Read more

FATHER, SON AND HOLY COACH at the Whitefire Theatre

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Pauline Adamek  – Stage Raw It’s a little difficult to get a fix on writer-performer John Posey’s solo show Father, Son & Holy Coach, which first premiered in 1993 at The Santa Monica Playhouse. Is it a true story? Is it about a real person? No and yes (I think). Although voicing numerous characters throughout the … Read more

NO HOMO at the Atwater Village Theater

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Pauline Adamek  – Stage Raw Brandon Baruch’s dramedy No Homo, ostensibly about the gay scene in L.A., was a multi-award winner at last year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival. The play went on appear at to New York’s International Fringe fest and underwent some reworking, including an altered ending. It now returns to L.A. for a short season … Read more

STANLEY ANN: THE UNLIKELY STORY OF BARACK OBAMA’S MOTHER at the LGBT Center’s Davidson/Valentini Theatre

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Pauline Adamek  – Stage Raw If you’re anything like me, you’ll go into Mike Kindle’s one-act drama knowing nothing about the mother of Barack Obama, but come out with a healthy respect for the progressive woman who, virtually single-handedly, raised the man who became the President of the United States. Read more… Deborah Klugman – LA … Read more