F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw Mark Guirguis’s clever scenic features a series of flats that pivots to reveal the castle’s various rooms. Leigh Allen’s lighting design is effectively murky, sometimes to a fault. However, it is Rubalsky’s magnificent sound design, all creaks and moans and things that go bump in the night, that is … Read more
Martín Hernández – Stage Raw While its many parts do not congeal into a steady whole, thus diminishing its core theme, the play nonetheless serves as a forceful call to pick up torches and pitchforks against global warming. Read more…
F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw This production offers a radiant counterpoint to America’s cruel climate of xenophobia—a vivid reminder of the rich gifts that immigrants have always contributed to this nation’s story. 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
Martín Hernández – Stage Raw (Playwright/director Michael J.) Harney’s working “improvisationally for months” with his actors has resulted in longwinded poetical dialogue, protracted scenes, inflated and stereotyped characters, and a tedious three-hour-long production. Read more… Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 8.2 out of 10! Good Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! Listen here…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA This is a glowing representation of a magnificent work of art, beautifully designed, brilliantly acted, and directed with an obvious passion for honoring the words and poetry of Tennessee Williams. Read more… Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Production elements serve up an attractive framework for the story, its sweltering tropical … Read more
F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw Director Allen Barton, who is also credited as dramaturge, delivers a competent staging. However, a dramaturge’s mandate is to help synthesize existing material, and in this, Barton fails. Read more…
Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move Preview night stood on no ceremony whatsoever as Ortega delivered her Magnum Opus performance, AM I ROXIE? – an autobiographical, comedic lullaby to her Peruvian mother who lived her last years and died with Alzheimers. Very Highly Recommended. Read more… Jonas Schwartz – Theatermania The Geffen Playhouse is … Read more
Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix While some of us can multitask, others — like Francis Henshall (Kasey Mahaffy) in “One Man, Two Guvnors” — find it inexplicably and hilariously challenging. Richard Bean’s 2011 take on Carlo Goldoni’s 1746 Italian “The Servant of Two Masters” re-sets the story to 1960s Brighton, England, complete with skiffle … Read more
F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw It’s not all techno razzle-dazzle, though. Staging a musical this long and complicated is challenging, but Hade sturdily structures the mechanism with few creaking nuts and bolts. Read more… Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 9 out of 10! Exceptional Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! Listen here…