What Opa Did @ THEATRE 40
F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw At a time when families hide in their homes for fear of being deported—or worse — the parallels to Franciosa’s timely play are obvious. Read more…
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Brownstone @ OPEN FIST THEATRE COMPANY
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 8.5 out of 10! Great Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! Listen more… Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw The plots are predictable, though the drama picks up in the second act as the stakes for each character get higher, and the final scene does carry some poignancy. Read … Read more
Kid Gloves @ SKYLIGHT THEATRE
Katie Buenneke – Stage Raw Kid Gloves’s biggest struggle is that it doesn’t feel like it wants to be a stage show. The plot is comprised of dozens of scenes that switch locations regularly, so the show gets bogged down in scene changes, as we switch from onstage to backstage and back. The scene changes … Read more
Santasia – A Holiday Comedy @ THE WHITEFIRE THEATRE
Martín Hernández – Stage Raw Brothers and co-creators Brandon and Shaun Loeser and their band of madcap elves return with the 26thedition of their playful and raunchy mix of comedy sketches, animated and live action videos, and movie and Broadway parodies. Read more…
Stereophonic @ HOLLYWOOD PANTAGES
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 9.1 out of 10! Exceptional Show! Listen here… Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA This is a brave and decidedly rule-breaking work that, thanks to the stark vision of director Daniel Aukin, often reminded me of being smackdab in the middle of a living Ingrid Bergman movie. His purposefully … Read more
Die Heart: The Director’s Cut @ THE COLONY THEATRE
Martín Hernández – Stage Raw Adapted, choreographed, and directed by the ever loony Matt Walker, my favorite Christmas flick is transformed into a hilarious theatrical romp. Read more…
Frost My Life @ WISTERIA THEATRE
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…
Furniture World @ THEATRE 68
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…
Pointy Scissors @ THEATRE WEST
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…
Bluebeard’s Castle @ THE ODYSSEY THEATRE
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