Review: THE FIRST DEEP BREATH at Geffen Playhouse
Given the heightened emotions and nuclear climaxes of Colston’s play, there is something almost operatic in scope about THE FIRST DEEP BREATH.
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Review: TWELVE O'CLOCK TALES WITH AVA GARDNER at Whitefire Theatre
Alessandra Assaf, who enacts the Hollywood icon in 12 O’CLOCK TALES WITH AVA GARDNER, the play she has written with Michael Lorre, brings out all of the actress’s fire, charisma and messiness.
Review: INCIDENT AT OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP at Theatre Forty
After spending 90 minutes with the O’Shea family, we can thank whatever gods we pray to that we A.
Review: HOME FRONT at Victory Theatre Center
“On a night like this, anything can happen,” says Lt.
Review: THE EMPIRE STRIPS BACK at Montalban Theatre
Skillfully melding elements of traditional strip tease with a knowledge and deep affection of the STAR WARS franchise, THE EMPIRE STRIPS BACK figures to attract both leering dude bros and sci-fi obsessed geeks, to say nothing of the curious.
Review: AIN'T TOO PROUD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS at Ahmanson Theatre
Watching the mega-blast that is AIN’T TOO PROUD, the musical written by Dominick Morisseau based on the group’s history, this critic wanted nothing more than to be able to move like the members of Des McAnuff’s cast even for five minutes.
Review: DIE HEART at Troubadour Theater Co. At The Colony Theatre
Serving up a stage adaptation of DIE HARD featuring the music of Heart, the Troubies have once again given L.
Review: INVINCIBLE: THE MUSICAL At Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts
Misfiring on a lot of levels though it does, the production’s world premiere, directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene, has no shortage of electricity.
Review: THE BROTHERS PARANORMAL at East West Players
Prince Gomolvilas’s tale of a pair of aspiring sibling ghostbusters is actually a shrewd rumination on cultural identity and the processing of grief that also happens to contain – in director Jeff Liu’s solid production – some first-rate scares.
Review: THE PENELOPIAD at City Garage
Where the much-acclaimed TV adaptation of Atwood’s THE HANDMAID’S TALE coincides with the heat of the #MeToo movement, not every Atwood adaptation is created equal.
Review: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD at Pantages Theatre
Nearly from the second he takes the stage in Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Richard Thomas establishes himself as being comfortably at home both in the clothing and in the moral garb of Atticus Finch.
Review: EXPERIENCING LIFE (POSSIBLY) FROM BEHIND THE WHEEL IN DRIVER'S SEAT at Theatre 68 Arts Complex
The West Coast premiere of DRIVER'S SEAT at NoHo’s Theatre 68 Arts Complex gives us an actor/playwright very much on top of her game.
Review: THE INHERITANCE PARTS 1 & 2 at Geffen Playhouse
THE INHERITANCE is designed to make an audience feel quite a few different kinds of emotions: sadness certainly over lives lost and squandered; seething bitterness over a country adrift; humor over the many creative ways in which smart people cope and endure; and perhaps even a strong inclination to
Review: A GREAT WILDERNESS at the Matrix
Rogue Machine Theatre has produced several of the Samuel D.
Review: SANCTUARY CITY at Pasadena Playhouse
As directed by Zi Alikhan with a pitch-perfect technical team and acted to the nines by Ana Nicolle Chavez, Miles Fowler and Kanoa Goo, SANCTUARY CITY is the kind of intelligent evening that may get you talking before the final blackout.
Review: JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Pantages Theatre Is Outstanding
As these projects go, the Alanis Morissette-scored JAGGED LITTLE PILL may not have entirely broken the mold of jukebox musicals, but it has sure put a dagger-sized gash in it and made it bleed.
Review: Worlds and Tragedy Collide In Bilingual OEDIPUS TYRANNUS at Getty Villa
Koons' moody production at the Fleishman is trying to tap into a noirish whodunnit vibe in which the story’s professed detective is the one person in the building (or in this case, the amphitheatre) who doesn’t realize that he is himself is also the murderer.
Review: 13: THE MUSICAL at Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center
In the staging of 13 at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center, the kids are more-than-allright; occasionally a little rough around the edges, but so is this musical.
Review: HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES at La Jolla Playhouse
Viewers who remember and were affected by THE LARAMIE PROJECT will see parallels in HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES, a beautiful and no-less-significant new play written by Kaufman and Amanda Gronich, co-produced by the Tectonic Theater Project and directed by Kaufman at the La Jolla Playhouse.
Review: THE REMARKABLE MISTER HOLMES at North Coast Repertory Theatre
THE REMARKABLE MISTER HOLMES isn’t meant for the purists.
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