Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA I would love to see a more fleshed-out and less hurried version that would be given more time to find its rhythms and make better sense. Matt Morillo has created a well-written and potentially fascinating exploration into an unlikely modern urban-challenged friendship but the play—and an actor as completely watchable … Read more
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 9 out of 10! Exceptional Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! Listen more… Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Directed by Brian Eckert, the production’s strength lies in Knell’s consistently truthful turn as Maya, which becomes even more important as the play’s meatier themes emerge. But JoAnna, (whose internet bio … Read more
Tracey Paleo – BroadwayWorld In 1726, a poor, illiterate woman named Mary Toft, hoodwinked the finest doctors, scientists and nobles into believing she could give birth to rabbits and thereafter became known as “The Rabbit Queen”. Read more…
Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move If you ask me, it’s a monster of a setup. And director Matt Ritchey has accomplished a mythical feat in wrangling this hydra of a play. Read more…
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Johnny Cassidy has adapted his young adult novel The Consequences of Victoria Grey into an hour-long musical at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. His “futuristic novel with unimaginable plot twists” had to be a really difficult task to translate to the stage while adding 11 songs with lyrics by Cassidy … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way A worldwide outbreak of a brain virus has created zombies that attack their fellow humans. It even reaches the small Midwest town of Sidie Hollow in the new musical Losing Your Humanity at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Read more…
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way The proverbial phrase “revenge is a dish best served cold” is the mantra for Jiggs Burgess’s new play Wounded at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. It may be hot on the back patio of Carrol’s (Craig Taggart) Texas home, but he has arranged an extravagant afternoon tea for his old … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Violet (Katherine Lee) on viola, Ayodele (Tonoccus McClain) on cello, and Roger (Michael Lamb) on violin enter and take their places in front of their music stands. Roger places a flower on the vacant chair to his right for their recently deceased founder and first violinist, Leonard, Roger’s husband. … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Each year there are dozens of solo performance shows at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Most are the type where the writer/actor bemoans the trials and tribulations of their life thus far. I prefer a solo show that looks at a historical figure, either at a crisis point in … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way The flyer for Josiah Blunt’s one-person play at the Hollywood Fringe Festival describes the title Flayed as a verb: to have your skin peeled from your corpse or carcass. In the play, young Joshua Marsh, a recent graduate from a pastor’s college in conservative Virginia, is about to give … Read more