Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move A last-minute, random solo show choice has turned out to be one of the most exciting powerhouse presentations of the 2023 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Writer/performer Brandon Raman gives a tour de force performance in his highly comedic yet very serious epic, I CAN’T INDIAN GOOD. Read more…
Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move On the night that Stephen plans to propose to his girlfriend Alice, her father Cal shows up ahead of her to talk him out of it. You might be thinking: one of the uglier scenarios in relationship hell. And you would be right. Because it doesn’t stop there … Read more
Steven Leigh Morris – Stage Raw The times have caught up to playwright Murray Mednick, now an octogenarian, who has sustained a singular, uncompromising vision in his plays over the course of half a century. The vision is grim, but not without humor. I found myself smiling throughout his latest play, Three Tables, but unable to laugh. … Read more
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Last year’s arrest of wealthy financier and pal-to-the-powerful Jeffery Epstein on charges related to the sex trafficking of minors sent salacious shock waves throughout the country via the headline-hunting national media.Read more… Now running through December 15
Neal Weaver – Stage Raw Playwright Chuck Faerber looks with a satiric, goofy and sometimes jaundiced eye at what he calls “the real American religion: sports.” In this series of comic sketches, he casts a wide net, examining the players, the coaches, the TV commentators and producers, the Ku Klux Klan —and Condoleezza Rice. Read … Read more
Neal Weaver – Stage Raw In James McClure’s one-act comedy, three men hang out in the parking lot at Angel’s Bar in Maynard Texas in 1981. Roy (Christopher Jordan) is a Vietnam vet. Before he went off to war, he was a kind of local hero, famous for his 1959 pink convertible Thunderbird and his … Read more
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw As its title implies, Married People: A Comedy concerns the ups and downs of two married couples. Written by Steve Shaffer and Mark Schiff, both long-time standup comics, it’s less a play than a compilation of sitcom shtick with a sizable sprinkling of borscht-belt humor. Read more… Now running through April 2
Katie Buenneke – Stage Raw The Last Vig is billed as a show starring Burt Young, the Academy Award-nominated actor who played Paulie in the Rocky series. Unfortunately, Young’s performance is one of many big problems in the show, which plays through February 19 at the Zephyr Theatre. Read more… Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly Mobsters, especially Italian ones, … Read more
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Carlos Gardel was born Charles Gardès in France to an unwed mother who emigrated to Argentina shortly after his birth. He grew up in a working class neighborhood in Buenos Aires, later becoming an international celebrity famous for his baritone voice, his Latin-lover looks and his heart-fluttering female fans. Read more… … Read more
Neal Weaver – Stage Raw Franz Altman (Michael Laskin), the protagonist of playwright Charles Dennis’s deft solo drama, is an elderly Viennese Jew born just before the turn of the 20th century. Now nearly 100 years old, he owns a second-hand store called King Solomon’s Treasures, located in mid-town Manhattan, circa 1990. Read more… Margaret Gray – … Read more