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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: OLD FRIENDS at Ahmanson Theatre

Review: OLD FRIENDS at Ahmanson Theatre

February 20, 2025

To watch these singers perform these numbers is to dream about entire revivals of Sondheim shows built around some of these actors, maybe even productions that have their genesis at the Ahmanson.

Review: FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT at Mark Taper Forum

Review: FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT at Mark Taper Forum

February 13, 2025

With its gung-ho company of actors, clever construction, wicked cool set and general overall braininess, FAKE IT sails blithely along for 90 minutes, liberally trafficking in chuckles and cringes.

Review: FARM HALL at Pico Playhouse

Review: FARM HALL at Pico Playhouse

January 25, 2025

The production’s thrifty staging directed by Judith Hendra for Topanga Actors Company feels stagnant instead of urgent, indifferent where it could have been thought-provoking.

Review: THE CIVIL TWILIGHT at Broadwater Studio Theatre

Review: THE CIVIL TWILIGHT at Broadwater Studio Theatre

January 2, 2025

This deceptively dark world premiere, co-produced by People with Plays Productions and the Road Theatre Company at the Broadwater Studio Theatre, is not one for those looking to 2025 with visions of sunny skies ahead.

Review: BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL at Hollywood Pantages

Review: BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL at Hollywood Pantages

November 12, 2024

Is there some sort of formula for roping in both fans of a hit movie and stage hounds, to catch lightning in a new medium? Judging by what the musical's book writer Bob Gale, director John Rando and the musical team must have been thinking, the answer is you slavishly remake the movie on stage.

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.




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