Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move CLUE is simply the zaniest! This end-of-season offering is a stellar, screwball noir. Maybe even, the Ahmanson’s all-around best all year. Read more… Harker Jones – BroadwayWorld Filled with puns and pratfalls, mugging and mannerisms, CLUE is broad camp, laugh-out-loud funny, and absolutely joyous. Read more… Travis … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Tom Jacobson’s plays have always taken on enormous artistic challenges, particularly in his ability to present narrative obstacles requiring the most experienced of veteran artists to untangle. The history at the heart of this two-part, four-hour-plus production could not be more epic, meant not only in physical scope but in … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Oh, lordie, how I needed a carefree trip past that second star and straight on to morning, an evening populated by a charming troupe of precocious lost boys led by that ageless young fellow who refuses to learn to be a parrot and recite a silly rule, culminating in the … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA There’s no doubt director Bart DeLorenzo is one of our most gifted visionaries, brilliantly interpreting and often reinventing many of our most beloved classics over the years, but I’m not sure what he was thinking this time out—or why he didn’t make a drastic u-turn when he saw how this … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA The premise of Philip W. Chung’s new play is compelling and eye-opening, but when dependable LA actors as gifted as Arye Gross, Alexandra Hellquist, and Gavin Kawin Lee come off as heavy-handed and unimpressive as they do here, something is terribly wrong. All three deserve better, as does director Jeff … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Cowabunga, my humor-starved overheated moondoggies, understand this one fact of nature: no one spoofs those ridiculously cheesy early-60s surfer flicks quite as perfectly as Charles Busch—and this smart and colorful remounting of his 1987 off-Broadway hit “Psycho Beach Party” could not possibly be more swellsville, bros. Read more… Katie Buenneke … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Longtime LA weatherman Fritz Coleman retired in 2020 after four decades delivering his signature cheery forecasts on a daily basis but at age 76, his new solo show “Unassisted Residency,” which plays once monthly at the El Portal’s intimate Monroe Forum, proves he’s still got the chops to deliver a … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA There aren’t many actors brave enough to follow in the oversized footsteps of someone as iconic as the lategreat comic genius Robin Williams in one of his most familiar and celebrated roles, but Rob McClure does just that–and somehow, he manages to reinvent the role and make it his own. … Read more
Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix The Troubadour Theater Company doesn’t miss a beat with its latest music-meets-classic story mashup, “Duran DurAntony & Cleopatra,” continuing at the Colony Theatre through June 16. Read more… Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Although free of the Troubie’s usual fake snow and cardboard gingerbread accoutrements, Matt Walker & Company’s … Read more
Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix Directed by Stephen Brackett, “A Strange Loop” is also well paced – despite its circling, solipsistic structure – making it a wild ride through one young man’s mind and heart. Read more… Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Playwright/composer Michael R. Jackson could be what might have hypothetically happened if … Read more