Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Five years before he won his Pulitzer, James Ijames’ prophetically in-your-face earlier play cries out to us about the horrendous epidemic of brutality perpetrated against innocent and unarmed African-American men and women.This play made it clear the kind of urban poet Ijames was about to become but doesn’t have the … Read more
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 7.9 out of 10! Above Average! Listen more… Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Any actor who’s spent a large block of time perfecting their craft participating in scene study workshops, entering the intimate Davidson/Valentini Theatre at the Center and stepping into the world of Rajiv Joseph’s 2009 overlooked … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA In this mess of a world we try to navigate on a daily basis, there are two universal gifts offered us in our lives that can heal. One is art; the other is love. Samuel D. Hunter’s new play is proof both are what we need to make our tenuous … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA New and basically untried musicals are always scary, especially when the creators are trying to walk the perilously thin line between entertainment and a social conscience. Luckily for Angelenos, the current resident at the Colony Theatre is a perfect example of how to do both. Read more…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Each summer for the past 18 years, the Getty Villa Museum has presented a classic production, previously offering recreations of works written by fellows with names such as Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus. This time out, however, in a coproduction with the Classical Theatre of Harlem, the Getty offers the world … Read more
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, first produced in 1938, has always been a popular play, from frequent star-studded revivals (featuring the likes of Paul Newman, Michael Shannon, Spalding Gray, Margaret Hamilton and Henry Fonda) to ubiquitous community theater and high school productions. It’s been adapted into radio, film, ballet and musical … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA The truth is—and it has always been so—that art heals. From the ancient days of Greek drama, when a shrewdly disguised political message is slyly presented through the lens of outrageous comedy, it is a feat to be admired. Read more… Terry Morgan – ArtsBeatLA In my fifty-seven years of … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Hershey Felder’s lyrical and painstakingly researched script is a most arresting part of this world premiere but as usual, magic happens when the master turns to the piano and in detail identifies familiar moments in the great composer’s work that inspired his dulcet, hypnotic compositions that remain timeless contributions to … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Methinks Abby Rosebrock is a playwright to watch. Her quirky revelation-a-minute plot and nonstop clever dialogue chockful of double entendres and thrown-away one-liners is skillfully mixed with a survivor’s instinct that eviscerates the selfish and disenfranchising society contemporary millennials and others must navigate in an effort to find love. Read … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA “Love is Company,” the lyrics of the late-great Stephen Sondheim’s title song of his groundbreaking 1970 classic tells us, and the slice of our collective and most tenuous lives explored in this fresh gender-bending interpretation of his time-defying masterwork could not be more compelling. Read more… Katie Buenneke – Theater … Read more