Thursday, June 13, 2013
It's Fringe, Fringe and more Fringe festival coverage this week in new theater reviews (see below) and this week's theater feature. There will be a bit more Fringe coverage next week, but w.…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:00AMThursday, June 6, 2013
Kander & Ebb's musical The Scottsboro Boys, a Broadway-import minstrel show about Jim Crow, rolled into the Ahmanson and grabbed this week's pick. Good notices also for Zayd Dohrn's immi…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 04:30PMThursday, May 30, 2013
Zombie Joe's Underground and director Denise Devin turn Shakespeare's Richard III into an enthralling one-hour redux, says critic Jenny Lower. The production is this week's pick of the week.…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 06:13PMThursday, May 23, 2013
Lee Melville, a true gentleman and decades-long friend of our theater, died last night. Melville was a critic and editor at Drama-Logue and, most recently, L.A. Stage. More details as they …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 05:30PMThursday, May 16, 2013
The scandal surrounding a love affair between a brother and his sister forms the centerpiece of John Ford's 17th century play, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Archway Theatre's downtown production …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 04:34PMThursday, May 9, 2013
L.A. Weekly critic Lovell Estell III found a police melodrama Cops and Friends of Cops to be a refreshingly unpredictable new play, and made it this week's Pick. Good reviews also for Peter …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 06:00PMThursday, May 2, 2013
Lovell Estell III found Chromolume Theatre's production of Do Lord Remember Me stirring, and made it this week's Pick. Neal Weaver also found a multimedia Brecht on Brecht at Atwater Village…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 08:30PMFriday, April 26, 2013
Our critic Deborah Klugman found Tadeusz Slobodzianek's drama, about Polish complicity in the German Nazis' persecution of Polish Jews in the 1940s, and presented by Son of Semele Ensemble a…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 09:00AMThursday, April 18, 2013
Adapter-performer Brian T. Finney has adapted Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in what Paul Birchall describes as "hypnotic." It's this week's pick of the week. Neal Weaver found charm and…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 01:45PMThursday, April 11, 2013
Lost Moon Radio did another bang-up job hosting the 34th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night. (See the full list of L.A. Weekly Theater Award winners here.) Thanks to Lauren Ludwi…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 02:18PMThursday, April 4, 2013
Marilyn Monroe liked the ladies -- so proposes this week's Pick of the Week, Marilyn -- My Secret, Odalys Nanin and Will Manus' new play in MACHA/Globe Theatre in West Hollywood. See below f…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:30AMThursday, March 28, 2013
Tracie Bennett knocked the socks off our critic Tom Provenzano with her impersonation of Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow at the Ahmanson, which he made this week's Pick of the Week. Also …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 06:04PMThursday, March 21, 2013
Pycho-sexual spectacles got nods from our critics this week, including Illyrian Players' Lord Blackberry's Apocalypse and our Pick of the Week, Tender Napalm. Nice reviews also for Doma Thea…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 03:55PMThursday, March 14, 2013
This week, our critics enjoyed composer and musical director Gregory Nabours' 90-minute musical The Trouble With Words (Coeurage Theatre Company at the Unknown Theatre) as well as a quartet …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 08:11PMThursday, March 7, 2013
The Canadian troupe Cavalia wowed critic Lovell Estell III this week with its equestrian spectacle Cavalia's Odysseo. Good notices also for Diane Glancy's The Bird House at the Autry Na…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 01:00PMThursday, February 28, 2013
Collectively, our theater critics were in a very good mood this week, offering recommendations to the majority of shows reviewed: Complete at the Matrix, Echo Theatre Company's A Family Thin…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 01:38PMThursday, February 21, 2013
Charles A. Duncombe's new play Caged at Santa Monica's City Garage is a rumination of the oddities of our species via the exhibition of two naked souls in a museum cage. It's also this week'…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 06:11PMWednesday, February 20, 2013
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SOURCE: LA Weekly at 08:00PMThursday, February 14, 2013
Child-like views delighted our critics this week, with Mike Kenney's Walking the Tightrope at the 24th Street Theatre taking Pick of the Week, and a nod to Albie Selznick's magic show Smoke …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:00AMThursday, February 7, 2013
Family trauma drama Machu Picchu, Texas (pictured above) grabs our Pick of the Week this week. Good reviews also for Noel Coward's Fallen Angels at the Pasadena Playhouse and David Hen…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 01:30PMFriday, February 1, 2013
Absolutely Filthy, Brendan Hunt's riff on the Peanuts cartoon series, is this week's Pick of the Week. For all the latest New Reviews, and complete theater listings, see below.
Two head-tr…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 12:54PMThursday, January 24, 2013
Kathryn Graf's new comedy about women slipping into middle-age, The Snake Can, is this week's pick of the week. Also a nod for Cathy Rigby reprising her decades-long performance in Peter Pan…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 12:00PMThursday, January 17, 2013
Nods this week for Laguna Playhouse's production of Neil Simon's Chapter Two and Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground at Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood. For the latest new review…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:00AMThursday, January 10, 2013
Our critic Lovell Estell was entranced by Vickilyn Reynolds' performance in a show based on the life of Hattie McDaniel, Hattie -- What I Need You To Know. For all the latest New Theate…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 05:37PMThursday, January 3, 2013
No new reviews this week, but these will return at the same time next week, as the new theater season gets underway. See below for complete listings of shows to see this week.In this week's&…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 12:00PMThursday, December 27, 2012
The holidays are a lean time for live theater productions. This week, we have three New Theater Reviews. You can find them and region-wide theater listings below.
This week's Stage Feature…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 12:00PMThursday, December 20, 2012
A strong production of In the Heights at Boyle Heights' Casa 0101 is this week's Pick of the Week. For all the latest New Theater Reviews, see below.It's a dirty job but everybody has to do …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 12:00PMThursday, December 6, 2012
We give nods this week for Donald Margulies' Coney Island Christmas at the Geffen, Anything Goes at the Ahmanson, Rise playing mid-week at Elephant Stage, A Mulholland Christmas Carol back a…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 07:49PMWednesday, July 4, 2012
Critic Bill Raden
was struck by both a new sci-fi musical Earthbound, this week's Pick of the Week, as well as by the intensity of a production of Stephen Belber's Tape, set in a motel roo…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 07:06PMWednesday, November 16, 2011
Alan Alda's "Radiance. . . " at the Geffen Playhouse Alan Adla's play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie is this week's Pick of the Week, running alongside a recommended review
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 05:54PM 
