Review: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: THE TWENTY-SIDED TAVERN at Montalbán Theatre
Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern is an improv comedy extravaganza, with all kinds of madcap silliness on display.
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Review: THE BIG FAT CHRISTMAS SHOW at El Portal Theatre
Standout moments include “Lonely Jew” by a brilliant Rena Strober, which made the entire evening for me.
Review: TINSELCOLOR: HOLIDAY SOUNDTRACKS LIVE at CineVita
Backed by powerhouse vocals, infectious energy and a tent dripping with Old-Hollywood glamour, TINSELCOLOR makes even the most familiar Christmas tunes feel freshly magical.
Review: Family-Friendly Holiday Magic Abounds in A CHRISTMAS CAROL
With its stirring original music, vivid storytelling and exuberant cast, A Christmas Carol at A Noise Within continues to capture the timeless magic of Dickens’ classic - and the enduring hope that kindness can redeem us all.
Review: LA BOHÈME at LA Opera
Herbert Ross’ production of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème currently being presented by LA Opera has everything an audience venturing to the opera could hope for.
Review: A Random Encounter Aligns Two Lost Souls in HEISENBERG
Award-winning director Cameron Watson invites us to watch the story of two lost souls looking for human connection who bloom and blossom after randomly meeting in a world that seems to consistently separate them from others into perpetual loneliness.
Review: CRY IT OUT BY MOLLY SMITH METZLER at Little Fish Theatre
All four actors as well as director Mirai are to be commended for keeping the action moving and characters deeply present in their own truths.
Review: SUFFS at Hollywood Pantages
If you don’t already know them, you’ll likely want to look up the names of Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt, Ida B.
Review: WORKING GIRL at La Jolla Playhouse
WORKING GIRL ultimately soars and plummets based on the root-ability quotient of its title character.
Review: PASSION at Chromolume Theatre At The Zephyr
Employing a 12-person cast who are largely at ease with difficult music, Esposito and company deliver a rare opportunity to commune with this difficult play.
Review: PARANORMAL ACTIVITY at Ahmanson Theatre
Chris Fisher’s illusions are the ace in the hole for this production.
Review: AN INSPECTOR CALLS Shines Under Cate Caplin’s Direction at Theatre 40
Directed with pinpoint focus and lots of movement by Cate Caplin to keep the play from becoming a typical “talking heads” production, I guarantee An Inspector Calls will keep you captivated until its startling conclusion.
Review: TABLE 17 at Geffen Playhouse
The fervor of a given audience – kind of its own character in this play - probably helps distract from the fact that, its sweet vibes aside, there’s not a lot of there in Lyons’ play.
Review: FRA DIAVOLO at The Highland Park Ebell
While there are ample charms on display in this Pacific Opera Project production of Fra Diavolo, director Josh Shaw seems to lack the right kind of touch for this light-hearted, confectionary romp.
Review: Pun-tastic SHUCKED Harvests Laughs at Segerstrom Center
Filled with a seemingly non-stop parade of awww-shucks delivered puns—of both super naughty and super corny varieties—the show, for lack of a more eloquent description, is so frikkin silly and stupid in the best possible ways a comedy can get.
Review: MOULIN ROUGE! at Hollywood Pantages
Moulin Rouge! is an immersive, kinetic wild ride, lavishly sexy, unabashedly romantic, and breathtaking to look at.
Review: GREASE at El Portal Theatre
Director Thomas and choreographer Gary Roberts have designed some creative staging, but it never quite takes off
Review: Last Call Theatre's THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT at Stella Coffee
Produced by Liviera Lim and Michael DiNardo and directed by Ashley Busenlener for Last Call Theatre, The Butterfly Effect is not to be missed by fans of true immersive/interactive theatre or those curious to experience being involved in a show rather than just watching it.
Review: Laughs Fly High in PETER PAN GOES WRONG at La Mirada
Now presenting an even more over-the-top follow up compared to their first go-round in THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG staged here last February, the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment revisit the earnestly bumbling folks at the fictional Cornley Polytechnic Drama Socie
Review: THE AARON PLAY at Independent Shakespeare Company
Co-produced by Independent Shakespeare Company and Coin & Ghost, THE AARON PLAY will engage theater-goers and Bard-hounds as well as those who embrace stories with ideas.
Review: South Coast Repertory Presents THE HEART SELLERS
An intermission-less, two-character, conversational-centric play that focuses on a pair of women's specific immigrant experiences—marked with loneliness, hopes, fears, and puzzlements big and small—Pulitzer Prize finalist Lloyd Suh's absorbing, touching, and occasionally (thankfully) very funny
Review: MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL Returns to OC’s Segerstrom Center
After making a splash when it first visited the OC back in 2022, MOULIN ROUGE! - THE MUSICAL—the dazzling, Tony Award-winning 2019 Broadway stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's groundbreaking 2001 movie musical—is back full throttle at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa for a limited wee
Review: SHOOTING STAR by Steven Dietz at Little Fish Theatre
What makes this production so enthralling along with Donovan’s tight direction is the immersive effect of feeling involved in the lives of these two lonely people as they openly reveal their fears and feelings as the 90-minute play unfolds.
Review: A Hauntingly Intimate PARADE at Venice’s Electric Lodge
That a show as powerful as Parade can soar in a small theater is a testament to both the talent of its director and the strength of its cast, of which there isn’t a weak link in the bunch.
Review: GUAC at Kirk Douglas Theatre
Co-written by Oliver and James Clements and directed by Michael Cotey, GUAC embraces its rough-around-the-edges persona without laboring to break new ground.
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Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/11) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Comics Reading Comics Dynasty Typewriter (9/13-9/13) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age The Soraya (10/11-10/11) |
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It's A Lot Lyric Hyperion Theater & Cafe (9/17-9/19) |
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Jane Austen UnScripted Kings Road Park (9/12-9/27) |
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Melt : The Play The Marilyn Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute (9/24-10/02) |
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Our Man in Santiago by Mark Wilding Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (9/10-9/20) |
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John Cameron Mitchell: Hedwig 25th Anniversary Movie Tour The Ebell of Los Angeles (9/18-9/18) |
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Schubert's Mass in G St Francis Episcopal Church (10/10-10/10) PHOTOS |