F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw The oddly abbreviated musical numbers are drowned out by a blaring sound mix — otherwise, Takeshita’s staging is brisk and an ebullient cast, which includes Donnie Riddle and Kolt Atchley, commits fully to the material, however flawed. Read more…
Martín Hernández – Stage Raw These snippets whiz by with scant time for Kilpatrick to flesh out the coterie of offbeat characters she meets and to highlight her apparent talent at characterization, accents, and comic timing. Read more…
F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw Playwright Clara Rodriguez certainly doesn’t hold back in Pointy Scissors, now having its world premiere at Theatre West. Rapid-fire in pace and convoluted, the play is a farce in the truest sense of the word. Read more…
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…