Review: MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM at A Noise Within
Director Gregg T. Daniel conducts a muscular cast delivering a production that is as fulfilling as it is shattering.…
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Review: IN THE TOMB OF TEN THOUSAND CALENDARS at Moving Arts Theatre
Actor WEST LIANG, delivers deeply nuanced, emotionally quiet, and completely resonant character portrayals that enhance each time capsule, in this play about historical and generational change.…
Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Theater Palisades At The Odyssey
TP’s production of Abaire’s KIMBERLY AKIMBO, the 2000 play, not the musical, is a potent concoction of pitch-black humor, family dysfunction and unexpected does of sweetness that one would not expect out of a tale this offbeat.…
Review: SWEENEY TODD at The Gem Theater
The Gem Theatre in Garden Grove, CA, tackles one of Broadway’s darkest musicals, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, armed with every color of light you can think of.…
Review: COME FROM AWAY at Ovation Theatre
Amid the heat and haze of Bakersfield emerges a spine-shivering show of human connection, compassion, and camaraderie. One of the first community theatre productions of Come From Away brings out the best of humanity (and Bakersfield) on stage.…
Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Hudson Backstage Theatre
With a powerhouse cast and a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about how mental illness shapes a family, Hudson Backstage's production of NEXT TO NORMAL was every bit as moving as its source material.…
Review: HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING at Broadwater Black Box
Political and politically motivated, this quintet of characters offers a blistering two-hour presentation on how extremist religious views can warp minds, even that of intellectuals. It’s a smart, timely, and timeless script that is both illuminating and alarming.…
Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at Old Globe Theatre - San Diego
The world of Barry Edelstein’s high octane spin on MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at the Old Globe Theater is much of a much, containing much of just about everything...Of Shakespeare’s comedies, Edelstein’s cast, crew and musicians have worked awfully hard to make this merry.…
Review: Immersive Rock Opera DRACULA THE MUSICAL at Nocturne Theatre
Based on characters in Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula: The Musical, with a score by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics/book by Christopher Hampton and Don Black, will no doubt attract fans of the genre and its well-known characters to see Justin Meyers bring his terrifyingly horrific yet totally mesmerizing im…
Review: THE PEOPLE OF POMPEII at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Like the playwright, several of these company members are themselves proud Topangans. Performing as they are in the center of town, in quite literally the House that Geer Built, you’ve got to figure that they have a nightly audience who will get all the hippy in-jokes.…
Past Shows
Lazarus Rising
LAZARUS RISING Written by Matthew Johnson Directed by Wendi Johnson When the dead rise and the world breaks, what remains of the living? In Lazarus Rising, on what seems to be a normal day, the dead rise into ruthless predators, and humanity teeters on the edge of extinction. As...
Mojada
MOJADA: A MEDEA IN LOS ANGELES By Luis Alfaro Directed by Steve Llamas In this gripping reimagining of Euripides’ Medea, acclaimed playwright Luis Alfaro transports the myth to modern-day Los Angeles. Medea, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, lives in quiet isolation—until...
FeaturedDOT by Colman Domingo
Dot”by Colman Domingo is a touching, irreverently comic exploration of how modern family dynamics change as both children and parents get older. * comedy
ComedyNew Play
Electra by Sophocles
Set in a post apocalyptic world, the great Greek tragedy, Electra, centers around the grief and mourning of Electra for her father who was murdered by her mother and mother’s lover. Electra’s deep anguish and desire for revenge is like a knot that no one can untie as it grows...
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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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The House on Mango Street LA Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts (12/02-12/02) |
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John Cameron Mitchell: Hedwig 25th Anniversary Movie Tour The Ebell of Los Angeles (9/18-9/18) |