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
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