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Tracey Paleo is a Los Angeles Theater Critic, a Board Member, and a full-time Voting Member of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle.  She is the 2023-24 Awards Chair and Producer of the 2024 LADCC Streaming Awards Show. Tracey is also the Publisher, Chief Editor, and personality of the arts & culture site Gia On The Move  (since 2009). Her former bylines include FootLights Publishing (Managing Editor, Social Media Director, News Desk, Contributor), Discover Hollywood Magazine (Theater Critic), The Tolucan Times (Theater Critic), and WEHO News (Contributor, Food Critic). Tracey has been a Theater Reviews and occasional Editorial Contributor to Broadway World Los Angeles since 2021. As a former actor, she is widely known for her role as Darlene, in Martin Scorsese's, "Departed".




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BWW Review: MAN OF GOD at Geffen Playhouse
BWW Review: MAN OF GOD at Geffen Playhouse
June 1, 2022

Set in a hotel room on a mission trip to Thailand, MAN OF GOD four high school girls must grapple with the possibility of their Pastor being a sexual predator. Read our BWW critic's review.

BWW Review: METAMORPHOSES at A Noise Within
BWW Review: METAMORPHOSES at A Noise Within
May 25, 2022

Tales of Midas, Orpheus, Aphrodite, Lucina, Alcyone, Iris, Phaeton, and Ceyx cohese together like a perfectly simmered, aromatic stew of human passion, sex, humor, greed, whimsey, and heartbreak in a rare revival of Mary Zimmerman's multi-award winning theatrical event, METAMORPHOSIS at A Noise Within.

BWW Review: ALMA at Kirk Douglas Theatre
BWW Review: ALMA at Kirk Douglas Theatre
March 18, 2022

National LatinX Playwriting Award winner Benjamin Benne’s stunning nee play, ALMA, launches the new theater season at the Kirk Doulas Theater and it is triumphantly resonant.

BWW Review: RAPUNZEL ALONE  at The Wallis Annenberg Center Of Performing Arts
BWW Review: RAPUNZEL ALONE at The Wallis Annenberg Center Of Performing Arts
March 16, 2022

Lettie is a city girl and London is her home. But when the war comes to her doorstep, for her safety, Lettie is sent to the country with over 600,000 other children. But it's not as nice as she'd been promised. For the next year, Lettie spends her lonely, monotonous days on an isolated farm wishing she was anywhere else but there.

BWW Review: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at Greenway Court Theatre
BWW Review: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at Greenway Court Theatre
February 11, 2022

12-time Tony Award-nominated, 'A Little Night Music' made a decided splash at the Greenway Court Theatre with the highlight of being a non-traditionally gender cast production. 

BWW Review: SINGING REVOLUTION at The Broadwater Mainstage
BWW Review: SINGING REVOLUTION at The Broadwater Mainstage
February 4, 2022

SINGING REVOLUTION is a contemporary production designed to inspire American youth with the ideas that peaceful resistance, social justice, and acts of kindness can change the world.

BWW Review: EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE at The Ahmanson Theatre
BWW Review: EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE at The Ahmanson Theatre
January 25, 2022

“It was just what we needed!” Ahmanson Theatre audiences' response to the opening night of EVERYBODY LOVES JAMIE was absolutely joyous and triumphant.

BWW Review: THE SOLDIER DREAMS at Open Fist Theatre Company
BWW Review: THE SOLDIER DREAMS at Open Fist Theatre Company
October 29, 2021

Director Amanda Weier has coordinated a well-cast and appealingly fluid production that retains Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor’s 90s generational stamp -  one of the best aspects of this dream play. 

BWW Review: THE ENIGMATIST at The Geffen Playhouse
BWW Review: THE ENIGMATIST at The Geffen Playhouse
September 27, 2021

Renowned magician and New York Times crossword constructor David Kwong offers a sophisticated presentation of multi-layered illusion, where clues are everywhere and the surprises that happen often, can be solved by observing with a rational eye.

BWW Review: URINETOWN THE VIRTUAL MUSICAL at MSD Productions
BWW Review: URINETOWN THE VIRTUAL MUSICAL at MSD Productions
August 5, 2021

Producer and multi-award-winning director and choreographer Marcus S. Daniel’s rendition has magically transformed this stage musical into a hilarious, provocative, and sometimes frighteningly heightened parody that is filled with deliciously unsavory archetypes and caricatures. 

BWW Feature: THE MOST IMPORTANT THEATER CONVERSATION THIS YEAR IS NOW NOW NOW at Hollywood Fringe Festival
BWW Feature: THE MOST IMPORTANT THEATER CONVERSATION THIS YEAR IS NOW NOW NOW at Hollywood Fringe Festival
August 4, 2021

With every shift of the Covid-19 crisis, live stream, rather than continuing to be a bramble of thorns for theater, has become a way forward. NOW NOW NOW writer/director Tom Cavanaugh says, 'Embrace the Zoom!'

BWW Review: WE'RE NOT FRIENDS at Zephyr Theatre
BWW Review: WE'RE NOT FRIENDS at Zephyr Theatre
July 29, 2021

How is it that siblings can be absolutely superficial with one another?  Seemingly not care, have time, or energy, or desire to go deep and really hear what the others are saying?  Is, not knowing enough about one another, or knowing too much that creates the barrier to intimacy?

BWW Review: FORT HUACHUCA at the Zephyr Theatre
BWW Review: FORT HUACHUCA at the Zephyr Theatre
July 27, 2021

Denied membership in the American Red Cross during WWII, 180 black women of the 32nd and 33rd WAAC companies were reluctantly accepted into the Army, assumed their duties at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and went on to contribute an important chapter to America's history.

BWW Review: A THEATRE GEEK'S GUIDE TO DISNEY, GOOGLE & THE NFL  at Book Review
BWW Review: A THEATRE GEEK'S GUIDE TO DISNEY, GOOGLE & THE NFL at Book Review
July 14, 2021

“So many of our #dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” 27-year-old author and Google project manager Brett N. Axler has a real way forward for theater geeks trying to make it in the real world.

BWW Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST: LIVE IN HD at L.A. Theatre Works
BWW Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST: LIVE IN HD at L.A. Theatre Works
July 5, 2021

Brian Bedford originally thought that playing Lady Bracknell in the 2011 Broadway presentation of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST was a rotten idea. Luckily, for us, he changed his mind. Now streaming Live-in-HD until July 31st.

BWW Review: TEVYE IN NEW YORK! at The Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts
BWW Review: TEVYE IN NEW YORK! at The Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts
June 29, 2021

With the re-imagining of its outdoor terrace, the Wallis provides an exceptional example of how theater has successfully responded to the limits of Covid-19.  And they didn’t forget the fun!

BWW Review: OVERTONE INDUSTRIES ORIGINAL VISION at Overtone Industries
BWW Review: OVERTONE INDUSTRIES ORIGINAL VISION at Overtone Industries
June 7, 2021

There’s been a #local #opera #evolution @OvertoneIND #LosAngeles that is registering more than a blip on the theatrical EKG.

BWW Review: THE DOOR YOU NEVER SAW BEFORE - A CHOOSICAL MUSICAL at The Geffen Stayhouse
BWW Review: THE DOOR YOU NEVER SAW BEFORE - A CHOOSICAL MUSICAL at The Geffen Stayhouse
May 25, 2021

The Geffen Playhouse has created a colorful, world premiere, CHOOSICAL MUSICAL adventure for ‘frustrated kids in quarantine’. It is off-the-charts fun!

BWW Feature: LOVE IS... at DConstruction Arts
BWW Feature: LOVE IS... at DConstruction Arts
May 21, 2021

@DconstructionA Celebrates Five Years of #Love Is…May 29, 2021, marks the 5th anniversary of the show

BWW Review: UNDERNEATH THE FREEWAYS OF LOS ANGELES at The Echo Theatre Company
BWW Review: UNDERNEATH THE FREEWAYS OF LOS ANGELES at The Echo Theatre Company
April 4, 2021

'We hope you can help us understand what happened here so it never repeats itself and justice can be served.'



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