Ed Rampell – Hollywood Progressive Pinter’s slyly subversive 30-ish minute piece does to those veddy British drawing room plays what The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s Leatherface does to human beings. Although I hasten to add that this is not to say that Party Time is a horror production per se, but rather that it Pinteresquely piquantly … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Arthur Miller often tackles the universal themes of morality vs. what his great classic’s everyman anti-hero Joe Keller calls “practicality,” but this time out the author leaves just a tad room for his audience to discover things for ourselves without incessant preaching about how dastardly our world operates. Read more… … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Filmmaker/musician extraordinaire Zach Shields’ play is a simple, intimately told, yet monumentally unblushing theatrical experience, a fine example of contemporary innovative storytelling at its best. Read more…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA The first scene in Nicholas Pilapil’s intriguing new two-hander is actually what normally would be the last, depicting the end of a beautiful decade-long relationship and leaving us an entire play to unravel what went wrong. Director Jon Lawrence Rivera stages the mercurial colliding events smoothly and often playfully, keeping … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Playwright Shem Bitterman has an uncanny knack for evoking a mood both untraditional and yet familiar—sometimes uncomfortably so. As with last year’s breakout hit “The Civil Twilight” from the same producing team, his newest two-hander, now debuting at the Hudson, again proves his provocative storytelling is a treasure. Read more… … Read more
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
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA The accessibility of Suzy Eddie Izzard’s performance as Shakespeare’s most notorious prince is unquestionably on display in her jarringly unique delivery of Hamlet’s most well-known speech, the character’s often caricatured third soliloquy, presented simply and with great warmth and humanity instead of spouted in grandly theatrical style filled with rage, … Read more
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
Ed Rampell – Hollywood Progressive British socialist J.B. Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls” is a clever dramatization of the British class system. Especially worth seeing as staged at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills. Read more… Harker Jones – BroadwayWorld A classic of mid-20th-century English theater, Priestley’s script has complexity. He gives each of his characters … Read more
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 7.9 out of 10! Above Average! Listen here… Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA There’s no tap dancing, no flashy special effects, no Merman-style belt numbers; it’s just a quiet and immensely relatable story with a haunting, gossamer score celebrating the wondrous endurance of true love and its ability … Read more