Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA I don’t think any December I was in town since 2002 has gone by that these zany guys didn’t lift my spirits and ward off my usual sense of holiday humbuggery. Matt Walker and his willing disciples knock their performances into the stratosphere year after year, selling out every show … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA For me, the best part of Charles Dickens’ classic 1843 novella is that it conjures a time of year when dead people apparate to terrorize rich people in the middle of the night until they agree to pay their employees better. Now, that’s a fable for 2024 if there ever … Read more
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 8.7 out of 10! Great Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! Listen here… Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Prevailing over everything about this bright and promising new musical, it’s interesting to quickly recognize the consummate talents of Tony-nominated director and transplanted native Angeleno Kristin Hanggi (the creator of both … Read more
Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix Irish playwright Samuel Beckett wrote “Waiting for Godot” in the winter of 1948, in French, having lived in Paris for 20 years and witnessing the devastating effects of World War II as a member of the French Resistance against German occupation. With only a tree and a rock on … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Shem Bitterman’s eerie new thriller is a totally unexpected eleventh-hour diamond in the rough that tops off our dynamic 2024 season with a bare-boned yet gleaming gem of extraordinary theatrical brilliance. I wanted to go home and take a shower and, in this case, that was a good thing. Read … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Anyone who’s been privy to my usual grumblings concerning the dated nature of traditional musical comedy as opposed to the innovation of contemporary musical theatre will appreciate my excitement about David Lindsay-Abaire’s multiple-Tony-winning 2021 musical adaptation of his also award-winning play. To me, it’s the quintessential paradigm of how such … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA As the most important and scary election in our lifetime looms ahead of us, what this British import beautifully delivers in spite of some theatrical shortcomings is a reminder of how urgently we all, like playwright Dave Johns’ goodhearted workingclass Everyman hero, need to join together to lift one another … Read more
F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw As for the production itself, director/choreographer Jeremy Lucas and a vigorous cast remind us of why Rent remains an important theatrical milestone, even after the shadow of AIDS has been largely dispelled by life-saving medical advances. Read more… Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA To discover that the Taper would … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Just in time for Halloween, this gothic rock “popera” has taken over the ground floor of the historic space adjacent to the Bourbon Room on Hollywood Boulevard and transformed it into a mad gothic nightclub. It’s the quintessential place to give revelers past the trick or treating and school carnival … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA What makes Sam Morrison’s adventures so haunting is his ability to dig incredibly deep and share both what’s intensely personal—something especially viable because he is one of the funniest people on the planet—and to possess the transformative capacity to swivel his audience from shocked to accepting of who he is … Read more