Evan Henerson
Review: MEXODUS at Pasadena Playhouse
When we hum along, dance, applaud or whatever (folks in the up close Get Down section probably have more opportunity to, you know, get down), the connection to the story and to its themes feels that much more immediate.
Review: CORIOLANUS at Independent Shakespeare Company In Girffith Park
Led by Brent Charles and under the strains of an angry guitar, a dexterous 10-person cast moves us through this still timely tale about the fickleness of public opinion and mob mentality.
Review: OPENING NIGHT AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL: THE BEST OF BROADWAY at Hollywood Bowl
Every inch a musical theater geek's night to remember, the evening featured quips from host Billy Crystal, the rigor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra conducted by Thomas Wilkins, a chorus of wonderful singer-dancers and an eye-popping featured performer lineup.
Review: ROMEO AND JULIET at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Casting high school aged teen-agers can be a trickier needle to thread than one might think.
Review: HELL'S KITCHEN at Hollywood Pantages
As substantial as its built-in assets are, the two-time Tony Award winner, musical is lacking in other areas.
Review: PRIMARY TRUST at Mark Taper Forum
Booth’s deeply sympathetic rendering of a good man navigating a life of crises is 95 minutes of sublimity.
Review: ANTIGONE at Antaeus
Andy Wolk's production transports Sophokles’s work off the pages of a high school syllabus and directly across the threshold of our comfort zone.
Review: MILLENNIALS ARE KILLING MUSICALS at Colony Theater
As directed by Kristin Hanggi and led by actors Emma Hunton, Diana Huey and Aynsley Bubbico, KILLING MUSICALS looks to blend pathos, satire and female empowerment not always particularly smoothly.
Review: MASTER HAROLD...AND THE BOYS at Geffen Playhouse
The Southland has had its share of memorable Fugard stagings, and the newly-opened revival of “MASTER HAROLD” at the Geffen Playhouse boasts an impressive roster of artists and creatives – onstage and off – who bring this tale vibrantly to life.
Review: ENGLISH at Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts
ENGLISH isn’t so much a play about the power of words as it is about the inextricable and very complicated bonds between language, culture and identity.
Review: DEATH OF A SALESMAN at A Noise Within
Director Julia Rodriguez-Elliott delivers a production that pulses with quiet power and a moody score.
Review: FAIRVIEW at Rogue Machine At The Matrix Theatre
Despite its title, its well-intentioned if cynical nod to diplomacy, Oz Scott’s production is a swift kick to the nether regions.
Review: OCTOPUS'S GARDEN at Theater At Boston Court
Weston Gaylord’s mind-bender of play enhances the mystery of an already fascinating creature and of the limitless possibilities of what we don’t know.
Review: BEETLEJUICE at Hollywood Pantages
With all its visual delights on full display, the non-Equity production directed by Catie Davis (from the original direction by Alex Timbers) is a carnival of the macabre.
Review: RED HARLEM at Company Of Angels
In the premiere of RED HARLEM at Company of Angels, director Bernadette Speakes’s production offers some frequently dynamic staging which is brought down by a mixed bag of acting performances and the heavy-handed messaging of Henderson’s script.
Review: RICHARD III at A Noise Within
Embodied by the exciting Ann Noble and surrounded by a solid cast, Richard and his dastardly deeds are every inch at home within the world of Guillermo Cienfuegos’s sweet and seedy production of RICHARD III for A Noise Within.
Review: HERE LIES LOVE at Mark Taper Forum
With so many delights and leaning heavily into both the political moment that is recounts and what America is experiencing in the here and now, HERE LIES LOVE rocks as aggressively as it rallies.
Review: SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA at Geffen Playhouse
SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA is trying to be perhaps too many things at once and not really succeeding at any of them.
Review: POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE at Fountain Theatre
These are words that both sing and challenge.
Review: BROWNSTONE at Open Fist Theatre
The playwright’s story structure is engaging and West’s cast is rich with charisma, with the action fitting comfortably into Munroe’s smartly realized stage at the Atwater Village Theatre complex.
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