Review: MINDPLAY at The Geffen Playhouse
Vinny DePonto is an extraordinarily engaging performer who, in front of a simple white backdrop, captivates the crowd like a bonafide vaudevillian.
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Interview: Armina LaManna of WARRIOR QUEEN: ANAHIT THE BRAVE at Imagine Theatre
Rather than paint a mural of multicultural children holding hands around the globe or undertake some other trite pass at celebrating diversity with young people, Imagine Theatre's artistic director, Armina LaManna chooses to prioritize stories from the intricate 'cultural fabric of LA', working equi
Review: ALL IN THE TIMING at Zephyr Theatre
The performance at hand has its moments, and they are all while Patrick Warburton is on stage.
Review: DRAG THE MUSICAL at The Bourbon Room
Especially thanks to Spencer Liff’s inventive staging and punchy choreography, the show is either a riotous musical bursting out of the seams of the intimate Bourbon Room or a drag revue elevated with a solid narrative, pristinely-timed punchlines, and innovative novelty routines.
Review: THE MOUSETRAP at The Group Repertory Theatre
I was not going to pass up an opportunity to see Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap in October—- a time when we’d all like to be a little frightened by our entertainment—- and seeing it on the seventieth anniversary of its London premiere was a delightful bonus.
Review: ANIMAL FARM at A Noise Within
The best way to describe my experience at A Noise Within’s production of Peter Hall, Adrian Mitchell, and Richard Peaslee’s 1984 musical version of Animal Farm is that when the ensemble came out to bow and I only counted 11 actors, my jaw dropped.
Review: THE PROM at Center Theatre Group
Though fused with the pop sounds of the latest Broadway grab toward tween-friendly franchises, Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin’s score has a heart that leans more toward the unabashed sincerity of The Pajama Game or The Music Man than the more saccharine offerings from the current scene.
Review: MIKE BIRBIGLIA: THE OLD MAN AND THE POOL at Center Theatre Group
Mike Birbiglia is an undoubtedly remarkable storyteller.
Review: KING LIZ at The Geffen Playhouse
King Liz is the premise for a television show at best, and, despite the noble work of those who are trying to pass it off as a piece of live theatre, its plot points, the characters’ relationships, and the narrative are only strong enough to grab our interest through the next commercial break.
Review: TO T, OR NOT TO T? at Center Theatre Group
Writer and performer D’Lo exudes coolness in his purple print button down and Lakers cap, and from his first entrance, it is evident that we are present for a fully polished, fully fleshed-out tour de force evening of theatre.
BWW Review: KING JAMES at Center Theatre Group
What did our critic think? Joseph has woven an intricate veil of social commentary which haunts the two characters.
BWW Review: TAMBO & BONES at Center Theatre Group
There’s a lot going on, but the play itself lands its message within the first twenty minutes, and then bumbles through seventy more minutes of reiteration, repetition, and regurgitation.
BWW Review: BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY at Center Theatre Group
Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky at Center Theatre Group gets a few topical buzz words in there, but there is nothing fresh, urgent, or timely about the piece.
BWW Review: APARTMENT LIVING at Skylight Theatre Company & Playwrights' Arena
If every theatre review compared each show to the last presentation by the same company, we would be lost beyond the already limited capabilities of “thumbs up vs thumbs down” or “three and a half stars”.
BWW Review: TRAYF at The Geffen Playhouse
The thing about Lindsay Joelle’s Trayf, now playing at the Geffen Playhouse, is that it has really excellent dialogue.
BWW Review: ON THE OTHER HAND, WE'RE HAPPY at Rogue Machine Theatre
Rogue Machine Theatre’s latest offering, the American premiere of Welsh playwright Daf James’ On the Other Hand, We’re Happy opens in a cloud of cliches.
BWW Review: TEENAGE DICK at Pasadena Playhouse
Teenage Dick, a current streaming option from Pasadena Playhouse, filmed as a coproduction with the Huntington Theatre of Boston and Woolly Mammoth Theatre of DC is perfectly translated from the stage to the computer screen.
BWW Review: A HIT DOG WILL HOLLER at Skylight Theatre Company & Playwrights' Arena
The play explores the friendship between Gina, a self-proclaimed “wordsmith” whose liberal “activism” channels through her popular podcast and a pending book deal, and Dru, the young “Banksy of the Black Lives Matter movement”.
BWW Review: HALLOWE'EN SPOOKTACULAR: A PUPPET MARVEL at Bob Baker's Marionette Theater
I am not from Los Angeles.
BWW Review: HAVE A GOOD ONE at Pop-up Playhouse
Upon entering the Dorie Theatre at the Complex Hollywood tonight and seeing an enlarged black and white image of a shirtless man on a dimly-lit stage as 90s music blared through the speakers, I turned to my friend and asked, “Did they pump this place with cheap cologne or have I been transported b
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