Thursday, 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 06:30PMSunday, September 8, 2013
The magic of the Gershwin songbook swept the Los Angeles County Arboretum on Saturday, when Michael Feinstein and the Pasadena Pops Orchestra, together with guest vocalists Catherine Russell…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:46PMWednesday, July 17, 2013
Old Hickory gets a charge of anarchistic electricity in “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” at the Chance Theater in Anaheim Hills. This sublimely raucous take on Alex Timbers and Mic…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:36PMTuesday, July 16, 2013
The Laguna Playhouse has a surefire proposal in "I Do! I Do!" Although this sturdy revival of Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s 1966 two-hander hardly revitalizes an oft-produced regional…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:11PMTuesday, June 18, 2013
A potent charge of relevant provocation propels “revolver” at the Celebration Theatre. In the final production at its longtime venue, L.A.’s flagship gay theater scores a p…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:52PMWednesday, June 5, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
The delicate theatricality of “The Fantasticks” has weathered countless editions worldwide since its off-Broadway premiere in 1960. But Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s adapt…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:41PMFriday, May 17, 2013
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Two sets of lives unexpectedly commingle in “Assisted Living” at the Odyssey Theatre. This amiable item from real-life married couple Winnie Holzman and Paul Dooley isn’t e…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMTuesday, April 2, 2013
Reviewing the 1981 premiere of “Dreamgirls,” critic Frank Rich wrote, “When Broadway history is being made, you can feel it.” To paraphrase him, when Equity-waiver hi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:15PMTuesday, March 26, 2013
It’s a softer-grained “Master Class” than usual in Long Beach, but just try to look away. Although more muted than some past editions, this adroit International City Theatr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:06PMWednesday, March 6, 2013
“My name is Knott. Doug Knott. And I am the last of the Knotts.” With that plainspoken declaration, “Last of the Knotts” begins its idiomatic trek inside the psyche o…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:00PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
A bright golden haze of timeless musical theater invention suffuses “Oklahoma!” at the Carpenter Center. It carries Musical Theatre West’s affable, fleet-footed 70th annive…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:58PMThursday, February 14, 2013
In “A Heap of Livin’,” playwright Elliot Shoenman surveys the minefield of family interactions, in this case between a widowed folksinger and his two very different daughte…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:05PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
“Being newly single in middle age.... It’s like opening one of those child’s toys where the snake pops out of the can.” So goes “The Snake Can” at the Ody…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:58PMThursday, December 13, 2012
English pantomime comes to Pasadena with a sitcom wink, a Top 40 backbeat and enough topical in-jokes to make Jon Stewart woozy in “A Snow White Christmas.” This larky take on th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:42PMTuesday, November 27, 2012
“When one is young, one hears only the word 'great.' When one is less young, one hears only the word 'next.' ” So says the spiky centrifuge of “The Morini Strad” at…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:00PMTuesday, November 6, 2012
If Kristin Chenoweth’s personal elán and ability to elate an audience could be mass-produced, the quest for global peace would be over, as Monday night’s Segerstrom Concert Hall…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:41PMWednesday, October 17, 2012
Noteworthy intent permeates “Bad Apples” in its Circle X Theatre Company premiere. Jim Leonard, Rob Cairns and Beth Thornley’s surreal take on Baghdad’s infamous mili…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:23PMTuesday, September 25, 2012
Tinseltown tunefully outs itself in “Justin Love,” triumphantly opening the Celebration Theatre’s 30th anniversary season. Though not without its still-gelling aspects, thi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:15PMThursday, September 13, 2012
“The Bellflower Sessions” refers to therapeutic interviews between a downsized bourgeois and an unhinged shrink. If they represented the sum of Andy Bloch’s black comedy, t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:00PMWednesday, September 5, 2012
The working title says it all in “Focus Group Play.” Carrie Barrett’s dark-tinged satire of nutritional marketing research gone awry skewers corporate product testing with …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:10PMWednesday, August 22, 2012
Some odd quirks and remnants of wit adorn “Much Ado About Nothing,” which closes Shakespeare Orange County’s 21st season in beautifully appointed, crowd-pleasing, curiously…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:10PMThursday, August 2, 2012
The main question regarding “Farm Boy” is whether the storytelling so sensationally realized in “War Horse” can be evoked without a huge cast, evening-length scope an…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:15PMWednesday, July 18, 2012
It’s not just the exposure to countless editions of “West Side Story” that causes us to stagger dazed and elated from the Chance Theater. Less a revival than a whole-scale …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:35PMTuesday, July 3, 2012
With “Monty Python’s Spamalot” now leveling the Carpenter Center with the force of a killer rabbit, Musical Theatre West enters a deliriously demented phase in its 59-year …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:23PMThursday, June 14, 2012
"This weekend is going to make a colonoscopy look like a treasure hunt,” says the reluctant host of “The Long Weekend” at Theatre 40. However comically overstated, it&rsquo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PMWednesday, June 6, 2012
It’s hard to imagine a more peculiar mix of canny and canned than “The Addams Family,” which opened Tuesday at the Pantages Theatre. Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice and Andre…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:35PM 
