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Evan Henerson

Evan Henerson is a longtime arts and features writer who lives in Southern California. He is the former theater critic for the Los Angeles Daily News and has written for such publications as American Theatre, Playbill Online, Stage Directions and Backstage.

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Review: AMERICAN IDIOT at Mark Taper Forum

Review: AMERICAN IDIOT at Mark Taper Forum

October 16, 2024

With a packed Taper house, a stage full of hot young singer/dancers performing, signing and middle fingering their hopes and disillusionments into an iconic rock score; yeah life doesn’t suck too much.

Review: BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL at Morgan-Wixon Theater

Review: BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL at Morgan-Wixon Theater

October 10, 2024

From the second we enter the Morgan-Wixon, ushered in by black cowl-clad members of the Cult of Bat Boy; from the moment we see that pointy-eared effigy strung up to the rafters, we’re primed for two plus hours of four alarm horror camp.

Review: CYRANO DE BERGERAC at Pasadena Playhouse

Review: CYRANO DE BERGERAC at Pasadena Playhouse

September 21, 2024

Martin Crimp’s free adaptation – first staged in 2019 with James McAvoy in the title role -  is as urgent and beguiling as it is contemporary, a classic with a fiery heart and not an inch of dustiness or quaintness.

Review: THE BROTHERS SIZE at Geffen Playhouse

Review: THE BROTHERS SIZE at Geffen Playhouse

August 28, 2024

THE BROTHERS SIZE, a heart-rending, music-suffused three-hander exploring the strength and limits of fraternal bonds, is being staged in the Geffen’s smaller Audrey Skirball Kenis Theatre, where it fits beautifully.

Review: IF I NEEDED SOMEONE at City Garage

Review: IF I NEEDED SOMEONE at City Garage

August 19, 2024

The world premiere of the LaBute-ian tango, IF I NEEDED SOMEONE, is being staged at Santa Monica’s City Garage where director Frédérique Michel and actors Devin Davis-Lorton and Adam Langsam serve it up with (sorry, Jules) considerable sweetness.

Review: TOPSY TURVY at The Actors Gang

Review: TOPSY TURVY at The Actors Gang

May 30, 2024

The latest play by The Actors’ Gang, written and directed by founder/Artistic Director Tim Robbins, is a melancholy reckoning over the early days of the covid pandemic.

Review: ONE OF THE GOOD ONES at Pasadena Playhouse

Review: ONE OF THE GOOD ONES at Pasadena Playhouse

March 29, 2024

A second cousin once removed to William Rose’s GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER, ONE OF THE GOOD ONES finds the highly assimilated, upper middle class Gomez family losing their collective sanity when their daughter, Yoli, brings home Marcos, a man who, to her parents’ minds at least, qualifies as




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