Theatre 40

THE REVOLUTIONISTS @ Theatre 40

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Rob Stevens – Haines His Way The Revolutionists reviewed by Rob Stevens – The Revolutionists is a feminist history lesson and a laugh riot and well worth seeing. Read more… Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Four women also are featured in “The Revolutionists” at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills, by the prolific Lauren Gunderson (whose … Read more

The ‘R’ in SCR. A WW2 ‘Much Ado’. ‘Sunday’ starts Sondheim fest. The ‘Maggie’ musical.

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Don Shirley – Angeles Stage. Plus Geffen’s ‘Breath,’ Kristina Wong, and more. A flood of openings gushed through Greater LA theaters in February — although two of the new productions were delayed by an outbreak of COVID. During the first weekend of the month, South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa planned to activate the “repertory” … Read more

THE METROMANIACS at Theatre 40

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Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Way back in the mid 1970s, when I was just a few years into my theatre-going and theatre-reviewing career, I made the acquaintance of the lovely Viola Heigi-Swisher, who at the time was the Los Angeles theatre reviewer for the glossy, artsy New York-based monthly magazine After Dark. She … Read more

TAMING THE LION at Theatre 40

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Rob Stevens – Haines His Way In Jack Rushen’s new play, Taming the Lion, currently playing at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40, the playwright looks at a short time frame in 1933 when Haines’s relationship and his scandal-ridden extracurricular escapades could no longer be tolerated by studio boss Louis B. Mayer. Even though the script has … Read more

SEQUENCE at Theatre 40

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Paul Birchall  – Stage Raw In playwright Arun Lakra’s quick-witted, if perhaps overly cerebral piece, it isn’t a rabbit’s foot or a four-leaf clover that makes someone lucky — it’s genetic predisposition.  Or perhaps it’s an evolutionary adaptation that allows people to peer into the future, quantum physics-style, and somehow bring about their future happiness.Read … Read more