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
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA This is one of the first theatrical responses to the pandemic, an experience that took such a huge chunk out of our lives and as so, presented in the usual-unusual modus operandi for which the Actors’ Gang has become known, nothing and no one is left without a voice, from … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Promising new playwright Laura Stribling employs a fascinating device, seamlessly and innovatively melding history and fiction as two real-life groundbreaking astronomers and author/poet/abolitionist/suffragette Julia Ward Howe are presented as characters interacting with some equally interesting fictional women beaten down by the inequities of being a member of what was long … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Through the bleakness and hardship, there’s an omnipresent glimmer of hope the threads throughout Conor McPherson’s brilliant Girl from North Country as a stepped-upon group of tyrannized survivors of the Great Depression fight to discover what it is they want in their lives and how they can pull themselves up … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA The underlying message of The Hope Theory comes through this worldclass conjuror and raconteur’s skills and, for a brief time, he makes the chaos we all share these days disappear with the ease of his sleight of hand, shuffling our communal cares and worries back into the deck. Read more… … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Tira Palmquist’s well-meant and occasionally beautifully poetic play could have so much to say and her characters should be people we quickly come to care about but unfortunately, somewhere it completely and glaringly misses its mark. As is, its promise is more a pitch for a future movie on the … Read more
Terry Morgan – ArtsBeatLA According to the great sages of the internet, Hamlet is the most produced play in world history, and whether or not that claim is true, the indecisive Dane is certainly ubiquitous. And if it isn’t an actual production of the play, there are innumerable films that borrow the plot to serve … Read more