Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Everything about this presentation is emotionally devastating and so very timely, especially the “What would you have done?” nature of the tale. How Moises Kaufman has brought all the elements together and has orchestrated the mechanics of the projected images and the characters’ interactions with them makes this a mesmerizing, … Read more
Jonas Schwartz – Theatermania The play’s real star is Jamie Harrison and his eye-deceiving illusions. Even in the condensed version, actors flip upside down, get sucked through tiny boxes, change costumes (by Katrina Lindsay) in a snap, and shoot fire from their wands. Read more… Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA The star has to be … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Although I appreciated the dark humor of Audrey Cefaly’s script and am always ready to get lost in imaginative and skewed explorations into bending reality onstage, the promising magical aspects and quirkiness never gels with the subject of indescribable trauma and healing by finding someone who can (here literally) embrace … Read more
F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw Clocking in at 80 minutes, this two-hander may be compact in length, but it is dramatically dense in its densely dramatic portrayal of adolescent angst, sexual ambiguity, parental abuse, poverty, and the overwhelming peer pressure that can derail a young life. Read more… Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA What … Read more
Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix The play thus offers many lenses through which to challenge notions of race and gender—including a hilarious science-based plot twist near the end—successfully inverting what we might think of as true and fixed. It’s a refreshingly lighthearted way of sending up those concepts, though a more substantive story … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA I kept thinking during the performance what it must have been like for Guillermo Cienfuegos to read Will Arbery’s densely absurd yet hauntingly topical script for the first time. It would be hard to imagine the idea of directing such an idiosyncratic piece of theatrical indulgence could have been anything … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA This is one of the supernaturally-inclined Steve Yockey’s creepiest plays and certainly one of the most unsettling in another near-perfect partnership with director Ann Hearn Toblowsky, who so obviously “gets” him bigtime, and the unstoppably brave folks at the Road Theatre who never flinch attempting something risky. Read me… Tracey … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA It pains me greatly not to have better things to say about what I thought was sure to be a definitive mounting of Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1949 classic but unfortunately, it truly is a production that almost made me angry to have to sit through. Read more…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA “The theatre is the only institution that’s been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.” — John Steinbeck. Read more…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Although the creators of all things theatrical are still desperately trying to lure audiences back since the pandemic, the quality of what’s being presented on LA stages could not be more impressive—especially this year. I am amazed and encouraged by the resiliency of all theatre artists, all of whom deserve … Read more