Review: SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER at Whitmore-Lindley Theatre
While SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER still holds up, more assured direction would help this production rise to its source material
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Review: SHUCKED at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre
Broadway's corniest musical comes to Hollywood! 🌽 SHUCKED at the Pantages is stuffed to the ears with puns from racy to ridiculous.
Review: & JULIET at Ahmanson Theatre
& JULIET proves rather emphatically that nobody really needs an original idea or song when you can just as easily get folks rocking out to Britney Spears or Katy Perry.
Review: THE FANTASTICKS at Ruskin Group Theatre
A truly delightful escape, this must-see production is a bit of charmed magic, a fanciful and evocative whimsy.
Review: THE MOTHERFU**ER WITH THE HAT at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble
The revival of Guirgis’s 2010 play, directed by Jolie Oliver, is equal parts humor, romance and tequila-soaked despair.
Review: REEL TO REEL at Rogue Machine At Matrix Theatre
Reel to Reel is the Los Angeles premiere of an exquisitely evocative new play at Rogue Machine at the Matrix Theatre on Melrose through August 23rd.
Review: Cynthia Erivo and Adam Lambert Lead Spectacular JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at the Hollywood Bowl
When it comes to the Hollywood Bowl's Summer 2025 production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber / Tim Rice classic rock musical JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR—which opened August 1 for three sold-out performances playing throughout the weekend—there are just not enough superlatives to bestow upon one of the mos
Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT at Hollywood Pantages Theatre
It’s clever and smart but not smirking.
Review: THE MARRIAGE ZONE at SkyPilot Theatre at 905 Cole
Jeff Gould’s THE MARRIAGE ZONE, a romantic dramady laced with dose of retro sci-fi, is not particularly deep or penetrating, but that doesn’t make this second LA staging at 905 Cole any less fun.
Review: Neil Diamond Musical A BEAUTIFUL NOISE Arrives at OC's Segerstrom Center
Overall, A BEAUTIFUL NOISE—now on stage at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa through August 10, 2025—comes off as guaranteed musical candy for Neil Diamond devotees, thanks to its current form as a polished, tidy, nostalgia-baiting jukebox musical loaded with familiar hits, sprinkles
Review: THE IRISH CURSE at Broadwater Black Box Theatre
THE IRISH CURSE is a moving exploration of masculinity, brotherhood, and how one commonality can erase race, age, and socioeconomic lines to find connection.
Review: Chance Theater Presents Intimate New Production of SPRING AWAKENING
Bursting with powerful, beautifully-rendered musical performances and emotionally-stirring characterizations from a terrific ensemble cast, Chance Theater's incredible-sounding, fiercely-acted, deeply searing new production of SPRING AWAKENING is, according to this critic, one of the best, most sati
Review: Musical Theatre West Presents BUDDY - THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY
Musically entertaining though rather light on narrative heft, Musical Theatre West's otherwise rousing, concert-like new production BUDDY - THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY—now on stage at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach through July 27, 2025—is a straightforward, nostalgic jukebox music
Review: YANKEE DAWG YOU DIE at East West Players
A tale of community and the frailty of Tinseltown dreams, YANKEE DAWG is given a full-throated production by actors Daniel J.
Review: LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST at Independent Shakespeare Company In Griffith Park
David Melville’s performance is a delicious mix-up of romance, hijinks and buffoonery, often overlapping.
Review: FROZEN at the Bank Of America Performing Arts Center
For the most part, 5-Star Theatrical’s production of Frozen, playing through July 20 at the Bank of America Performing Arts Center in Thousand Oaks, does a fantastic job bringing the beloved Disney tale to life thanks to a bevy of knockout voices, lively dance scenes, and energetic performances fr
Review: A BEAUTIFUL NOISE at Hollywood Pantages Theater
'Beautiful Noise' is a better-than-average jukebox musical about the career of superstar singer-songwriter Neil Diamond, presented as an aged Diamond goes through psychoanalysis with a therapist.
Review: THE JANEIAD at Old Globe Theatre
In the 100-minute, decades-spanning duration we spend with this woman who feels so very recognizable, Ziegler, director Maggie Burrows and actors Nadine Malouf, Ryan Vasquez and Michaela Watkins leave us affected, contemplative and more than a little bit heartbroken.
Review: A Hollywood Fringe Festival Overview Pt. 4
Overall, this year’s Hollywood Fringe Fest was a boon of creativity and talent.
Review: Hollywood Fringe Round-Up Pt. 3
It was a mixed bag at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, but overall, the show went on and talent persevered
Review: THE RESERVOIR at Geffen Playhouse Gil Cates Theater
What did our critic think of THE RESERVOIR at Geffen Playhouse Gil Cates Theater? “Well, the Geffen sure knows their audience,” remarked my guest at the media preview of, THE RESERVOIR.
Review: ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL at Old Globe Theatre
For his production of ALL’S WELL, director Peter Francis James has much to work with including plenty of solid actors and an equally strong technical team, but the production’s frothy overlay often feels off key
Review: HOLLYWOOD FRINGE ROUND-UP PT. 2 at Various
A double feature from Pamela Eberhardt showcases her caustic wit and emotional depth
Review: NICE GIRL at Rogue Machine at The Matrix Theatre
Nice Girl is the West Coast premiere of a must-see new drama at Rogue Machine on Melrose through July 20th.
Review: PARADE at Ahmanson Theatre
When PARADE debuted on Broadway in December 1998 it won Tonys for Best Book and Best Original Score and six Drama Desk Awards.
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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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They're Playing our song The General Gomez Art and Event Center (9/18-10/04) |
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A Number Madnani Theatre (9/18-10/11) |