Monday, March 16, 2015
Eighteenth century subversion meets Larry David lunacy in “Figaro” at A Noise Within. Ingenuity permeates this buoyant adaptation of Beaumarchais’ classic account of one crazy day at t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PMThursday, February 19, 2015
The fluff and fold of old-school boulevard comedy typifies “Washer/Dryer” at East West Players. Indeed, playwright Nandita Shenoy’s study of intercultural newlyweds attempting to co-ha…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PMThursday, December 18, 2014
The three essential qualities invoked in "She Loves Me" -- attractive to the eye, pleasing to the ear and functional -- generally emerge at Chance Theater in Anaheim. Though not without some…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PMWednesday, November 26, 2014
"I wrote for love. I wrote for my country. I wrote for you."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PMThursday, October 16, 2014
"Life changes in an instant. The ordinary instant." And so it did for Joan Didion in 2003, when her husband John Gregory Dunne succumbed to cardiac arrest in their New York apartment.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:00PMThursday, October 2, 2014
The unparalleled sardonic wit of Oscar Wilde sustains "The Importance of Being Earnest" at A Noise Within, where it will doubtless be a crowd-pleasing hit, despite (or because of) its distin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PMMonday, September 29, 2014
There is one week remaining to catch “Kingdom City” at La Jolla Playhouse, and anyone who values the power of theater to stimulate meaningful dialogue about significant issues dare not m…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMThursday, September 25, 2014
The dilemmas facing the life-battered protagonist of “Good People” are perhaps strategically manipulated, but that doesn’t make them any less relevant, humorous or dramatically engross…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:55PMThursday, September 18, 2014
Controversial psychology and show-biz moxie commingle in “The Behavior of Broadus,” with triumphant results.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PMThursday, September 11, 2014
The delicate art of origami provides both metaphor and motor for “Animals Out of Paper” at the David Henry Hwang Theater, and it enfolds the viewer with deceptive simplicity and consider…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:30PMThursday, August 14, 2014
“Coincidences are the universe’s way of being lazy” is one recurring motif in “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” at Theatre of NOTE, though it’s hardly the only metaphor. Erik Patterson’…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:30PMThursday, July 17, 2014
Pity the survivors of the late Peggy Ingram, whose bizarre demise is the talk of Winters, Texas. Elder daughter Latrelle drowns her mortification by fighting wildcat sister La Vonda over bur…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:31PMFriday, June 13, 2014
More than one legend gets their due in “Stoneface,” which is only as it should be. In a felicitous transfer from the Sacred Fools Theater Company, Vanessa Claire Stewart’s surreal smas…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:05PMThe title of “Flower Duet,” in its West Coast premiere at the Road Theatre on Magnolia, refers to Leo Delibes’ celebrated “Lakmé” air for soprano and mezzo.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:55PMThursday, May 22, 2014
Sophocles and post-traumatic stress disorder commingle in “Ajax in Iraq” at the Miles Memorial Playhouse, to dazzling, disturbing effect.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:45PMMonday, May 12, 2014
An inordinate degree of audience-savvy skill and no small amount of personal charm distinguishes “Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks” at the Laguna Playhouse. By embracing rather than avoidi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:35PMThursday, May 1, 2014
Highly promising talent bounces through “Pray to Ball” at the Skylight Theatre. Amir Abdullah’s tersely entertaining examination of Islam, college basketball and friendship…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30PMFriday, April 25, 2014
It’s Christmas in Chinon, France, circa AD 1183, and yuletide is anything but harmonious at the Plantagenet homestead.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PMFriday, April 11, 2014
SAN DIEGO -- Social commentary, familial relationships and quantum theory collide in “Time and the Conways” at the Old Globe, and the results are as formidable as they are engros…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AMThursday, March 20, 2014
Fair is foul and foul is fair in “Macbeth” at A Noise Within. William Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy of lethal ambition receives an emphatically respectable albeit uneven p…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMThursday, February 13, 2014
“Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.” That stark, matter-of-fact statement launches “Nocturne,” and its embedded significance is inexorable and intense.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:35PMThursday, January 23, 2014
In “Day Trader” at Bootleg Theater, a wannabe screenwriter in midlife crisis concocts an elaborate scheme to circumvent his rich wife’s pre-nup without sacrificing his cush…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PMWednesday, December 18, 2013
Snowflakes hit the Sahara in “Aladdin and His Winter Wish,” now turning the Pasadena Playhouse into a surefire seasonal oasis. Although this second annual holiday romp from Lythg…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:39PMWednesday, December 11, 2013
Delicate, bittersweet nostalgia suffuses “A Christmas Memory,” Truman Capote’s enduring 1956 autobiographical story, and the Laguna Playhouse staging of Duane Poole, Carol …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:05PMTuesday, December 10, 2013
Weimar cabaret meets Pacifica in “Kurt Weill at the Cuttlefish Hotel,” carving a weirdly effective niche for itself on the Santa Monica Pier. This dark-tinged program of deathles…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:45PMTuesday, December 3, 2013
“In the Heights” is currently irradiating Casa 0101, where it fits as felicitously as cinnamon in café con leche . This galvanic chamber edition of the 2008 Tony winner about t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMTuesday, November 26, 2013
A noteworthy degree of high-performance gusto attends “¡Ser!” at Los Angeles Theatre Center. This deeply personal coming-of-age account from writer-performer Karen Anzoategui re…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:44PMWednesday, November 13, 2013
Charles Dickens meets Lewis Carroll, literally, in “A Perfect Likeness” at Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena. This beautifully appointed two-hander about the authors of &l…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:28PMMonday, October 28, 2013
It’s a newer Argentina than not on display in “Evita” at the Pantages. This glossy touring edition of director Michael Grandage’s 2006 revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMThursday, October 17, 2013
How to enumerate the myriad wonders and delights of “Totem,” now taking its viewers on a dazzling trek from the primordial to the cosmic?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:25PMThursday, October 3, 2013
The tenacious human need for connection forms the heart of “Kin” at Theatre 40. Bathsheba Doran’s elliptical 2011 comedy-drama about how familial and personal relationshi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:30PM 
