Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA In an era where so much theatre has grown safe, polite, and overly cautious, this true counter-culture teat arrives like a brick through a stained-glass window–and Zombie Joe’s provides the quintessential intimate crucible for Michael Sargent’s outrageous brand of over-the-top and dangerous comedy. Read more…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Few theatres in SoCal engage with global socio-political urgencies as relentlessly or uncompromisingly as City Garage. With their West Coast premiere of this Ukranian drama by Natalka Vorozhbyt, artistic director Frédérique Michel brings a devastating and timely piece of contemporary theatre to Santa Monica. Translated with razor-sharp precision, the … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Talk about a phoenix rising from the ashes. After losing its cherished, longtime venue to the devastating Palisades Fire, this is a deeply heartwarming milestone for the scrappy little company and they could not have chosen a more perfect project (or space) to signal their triumphant return to storytelling. Read … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Sunday in the Park with Will! Bright, inventive, and wonderfully physical, this production plays like a seamless blend of classic slapstick and lively cabaret. It takes a truly inspired team to make a 400-year-old farce feel like a brand-new party. Read more… Edward Hong – The Nerds of Color Did … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA What a joy it is to see Charles Mee’s work back on LA stages twice this season after an entirely too long absence. The ambitious fledgling Blue Pen Theatre Company is now presenting this LA premiere dubbed a “kaleidoscope of love stories” which, in classic Mee fashion, eschew conventional linear … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Some people prefer their musical theatre bright and sunny and filled with corn as high as an elephant’s eye and nuns worrying about the problem of Maria, but give me the strange, the seductive, and sinister and dangerous every time. Seeing Frank Wildhorn, Don Black, and Christopher Hampton’s seldom performed … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA This perfectly staged and choreographed revival is a hilariously unexpected celebration of the ordinary that, by the time the guys’ drop their drawers and briefly flash the audience in the raucous finale, they have everyone in the house on their feet swaying and hooting as though they’re enjoying a night … Read more
Edward Hong – The Nerds Of Color Mexodus, a live-looping hip-hop musical created and performed by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson, is an extraordinary and mind-blowing accomplishment on all levels from its creative, technical, and performance aspects. Now having its west coast premiere at Pasadena Playhouse, it is a theatrical one-of-a-kind experience with an essential underlying … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Ultimately, aside from the enchanted and timeless wonder of its Griffith Park setting, what makes this so chillingly relevant is its indictment of the two-faced nature of modern politics. Shakespeare exposes a world where public interest is secondary to the egos of those vying for control and director David … Read more
Edward Hong – The Nerds Of Color If you want a good fun time, you can’t go wrong with the crowd-pleasing musical Mamma Mia! as it makes its Los Angeles pit stop at the Center Theatre Group for their 2026 North American tour. While this production doesn’t quite offer anything new to the table, it is bolstered … Read more