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
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 8.8 out of 10! Great Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! Listen more… Terry Morgan – ArtsBeatLA Fans of history can’t help but wish they were there for private, unrecorded conversations between famed historical figures, to be the proverbial fly on the wall and gain insight into what … 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