Review: A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD at Rogue Machine At The Matrix Theatre
This delicate and insightful two-hander presents both the playwright and the company at their most skilled.…
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Review: THE VISIT at Pasadena Playhouse
Tony winner Darko Tresnjak directs a nuanced and unsettling update of the 1956 Swiss play, adapted here by Maurice Valency.…
Review: World Premiere Musical WILD CHILD Debuts at Laguna Playhouse
Featuring book and lyrics by Dan Marshall and music by composer Julianne Wick Davis, WILD CHILD is an ambitious, sincerely earnest, and, at times, cleverly innovative new musical about a group of teenagers who are forced to join an outdoor wilderness therapy program where they must grapple with iden…
Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS at Hollywood Pantages
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS bears the imprint of its original director, the uber-talented Jessica Stone, and a team of collaborators who span a whole mess of creative genres. Along with their marvelous ensemble, they take us away.…
Review: ANTIGONE: IN THE LANGUAGE OF KINGS at Getty Villa & Latino Theater Company
Beneath the florid poetry, the stunningly-detailed costumes, and the imagistic staging, Sophocles would instantly recognize the overarching humanity that has carried his play through the centuries.…
Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Encore Theatre Company
Rooted in Faustian legend, a horticultural horror musical takes over Tulare for the next three weeks. Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s Little Shop of Horrors highlights the dangers of greed and talking plants as destitute protagonist Seymour Krelbourn discovers his mysterious fly-trap plant may sud…
Review: PERICLES at Theater At Boston Court
In staging the west coast premiere of Ellen McLaughlin’s modern verse translation, director Margaret Shigeko Starbuck and her cast are working their Helicanuses and Thaisas off to keep this lesser-staged romance punchy and relevant…
Review: THE ARSONISTS at Skylight Theatre
Swiss writer Max Frisch’s post–World War II absurdist satire THE ARSONISTS hit Los Feliz like a blow torch, scorching everything in its path.…
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.…
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.…
Past Shows
107 total · showing 21–30
FeaturedOrtiz, Villa-Lobos, and The Firebird with Dudamel
Dudamel introduces us to Heitor Villa-Lobos Uirapurusubtitled O passarinho encantado (The Enchanted Little Bird)a ballet score inspired by the innumerable melodies produced by a legendary bird from the composers homeland, Brazil. The concert ends with Stravinskys huge first...
FeaturedDudamel Conducts Revueltas and Petrushka
Dudamel leads two of his dramatic specialties: Silvestre Revueltas eerie film score that features a wild, extended section in which countless percussion instruments suggest Mayan rituals. Then its Igor Stravinskys brilliantly colorful score for a ballet based on a weird tale of...
FeaturedLiz Phair: Don't Holdyrbreath
From Zoomers to Boomers, everyone knows the significance of Liz Phair on the Gen X soundtrack of our lives. For this very special show, Liz will perform the greatest songs from her impressive catalog, probably swear, and host special guests Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie...
FeaturedDudamel Conducts The Rite of Spring
Although many of the stories about the explosion that began 20th-century music may be apocryphal, The Rite of Spring most assuredly debuted under stressful circumstances. The music, the choreography, the audience, the dancers, the subject mattercontroversies abounded. But the...
FeaturedDudamel Leads Adès’ Dante Gen X Festival
Thomas Ads called his Inferno a grateful tribute to Franz Liszt, the composer of hell and demonic music. When Gustavo Dudamel conducted the premiere in the 2018/19 season, it received a standing ovation before it came to a full stop, and the Los Angeles Times called it ambitious...
FeaturedJeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra
Jeff Goldblum has always been more than actor, and hes got the chops to prove it. He and his Mildred Snitzer Orchestra have lit up stages around the country and played in front of Capitol Records at our Celebrate LA! festival. Hear their spin on classic jazz by artists like...
FeaturedCorigliano and Norman Gen X Festival
John Corigliano long resisted writing a symphony, seeing it as a form that served a composers ego over the audience and performers. At the height of the AIDS crisis, Corigiliano overcame that hesitation and wrote his Symphony No. 1 as a way to memorialize friends lost to the...
FeaturedVoices of a Generation Gen X Festival
Thomas Ads exemplifies a generation of composers who drew upon the long history of symphonic music but rethought those traditional forms with a post-modern eye and sometimes ironic distancing. Ads both curates and conducts an evening featuring an international selection of Gen X...
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CLUB27 Jaxx Theatre (10/01-10/30) |
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Crone Creed El Portal Theatre (9/30-10/17) |
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Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/11) |
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A Killer Night in Studio City Vitello's (9/06-10/31) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Dinner with Friends Santa Monica Playhouse (9/26-9/27) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age The Soraya (10/11-10/11) |
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Melt : The Play The Marilyn Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute (9/24-10/02) |
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New Works Festival Shoebox Theatre (9/11-9/26) |
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Worthy The Un-Erasable Solo Festival - Willie Agee Playhouse (9/12-9/25) |
