Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze It’s Dec. 16 in the New Jersey home of Lou and Carol. Their daughter Pia has grown into a foul-mouthed, somewhat Goth adult, his younger sister Mona gets on his nerves, and Carol is just too amenable.Read more… Now running through December 11
Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze “Bright Star” is a fairly new musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. It had a life on Broadway last year and has arrived at L.A.’s Ahmanson Theatre.Read more… Jonas Schwartz – TheaterMania Bright Star has so many winning attributes that one can easily forget its shortcomings and simply enjoy … Read more
Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze It seems Arye Gross hasn’t aged well. As the actor emerges onstage at the Geffen’s Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater, he puffs and sweats and walks creakily.Read more… Jonas Schwartz – TheaterMania The biggest mystery of Underneath the Lintel is how the unspectacular quest for the late fees of a 113-year-old past … Read more
Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze So, you buy tickets to “Captain Greedy’s Carnival.” You sit in the audience. A character calling himself Captain Greedy comes out and asks, “Who wants more money in their pocket?”Read more… Now running through November 11
Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze There’s not much difference between creating a monster and creating a monster hit. Take for example “Young Frankenstein,” the musical currently in the hands of 3-D Theatricals.Read more… Hoyt Hilsman – Huffington Post 3D Theatricals offers another solid Broadway revival with Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein…Read more… Now running through October … Read more
Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze Nostalgia for the future and a droll chiding of the past drive the storytelling in Eric Overmyer’s “On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning,” at Little Fish Theatre through Oct. 19. It’s a smart play. Sorry if that damns it for you, but if you’re thinking of seeing … Read more
Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw August Strindberg’s 1900 tale about a monumentally unhappy marriage has been neatly touched up in this adaptation by Irish playwright Conor McPherson. As bleak as it is funny, it unfolds on an island fortress in Sweden that was once a prison (nicely rendered interior of gloomy faux brick, arched … Read more
Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze The Norris Theatre’s latest theatrical offering is entrancing and ebullient, two words best defined as fun. And although its characters are too-smart adolescents and odd adults, it feels inviting and universal.Read more… Now running through October 1
Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze Arthur Miller’s classic “All My Sons” opened on Broadway in January 1947, but it still feels relatable, thought-provoking and moving in its revival at Torrance Theatre Company.Read more… Now running through October 15
Jonas Schwartz – TheaterMania A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City tosses around the word “funny” often. Besides landing in the title itself, the characters constantly tell others they are funny, declare that they themselves are funny, and attempt funny jokes… … Read more