Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Pump Boys and Dinettes Reviewed by Julia Stier Sierra Madre Playhouse Through July 29 The Sierra Madre Playhouse is serving up a slice of life on Highway 57 with Pump Boys and Dinettes.…
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Dead Boys Reviewed by Neal Weaver Celebration Theatre Company Through July 31 RECOMMENDED Matthew Scott Montgomery’s play is not nearly as grim as its title suggests. Beneath its me…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 01:40PMThe Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Reviewed by Angie Hoover City Garage Theater Through August 12 There are jokes in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, but you wouldn't know it if you've se…
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Faustus Reviewed by Dana Martin Archway Theatre Company at Woodbury University Library Through July 14th Archway Theatre Company bravely makes a deal with the devil by staging Faustus…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 03:23PMWe Need This Musical To Stop Us From Killing Ourselves Reviewed by Lovell Estell III Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre Through July 14 RECOMMENDED Halfway into Glasgow Lyman and Jeff Rosic…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 03:16PMThe Death and Life of Mary Jo Kopechne Reviewed by Iris Mann Odyssey Theatre Through August 12 On July 18, 1969, Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island …
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The Blade of Jealousy Reviewed by Lara J. Altunian Henry Ong Through August 25 Henry Ong’s The Blade of Jealousy — a reimagining of Spanish playwright Tirso de Molina’s Celosa de s…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 12:20PMSweet Charity Reviewed by Katie Buenneke Reprise 2.0 Through July 1 If you didn’t know any better, it would be easy to forget that Sweet Charity, now playing at UCLA, is a musical…
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The Crucible Reviewed by Angie Hoover Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum Through August 19 Originally written as an allegory for the McCarthy hearings in the 1950s, Arthur Miller's The C…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 01:03PMThe Humans Reviewed by Dana Martin Center Theatre Group at the Ahmanson Theatre Through July 29th Family has an uncanny ability to reveal one’s flaws— and usually over dinner. Step…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 12:53PMRumors Reviewed by Neal Weaver The Group Rep Through July 29 RECOMMENDED Prolific playwright Neil Simon made his name with a long and successful series of character- driven comedies, in…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 12:43PMSlaughter City Reviewed by Terry Morgan Coeurage Theatre Company Through July 14 The plight of the blue-collar worker and the struggle of union versus management is undeniably a worthy…
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Savage Love Reviewed by Julia Stier Charlene Westbrook Closed Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin’s play Savage Love is an evocative, experimental piece of theatre. Unusual and melanchol…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 04:10PMMillennial Pink Reviewed by Julia Stier Olivia Brooks & Sarah Suits Obenauf (Hollywood Fringe Festival) Closed Millennial Pink, by Sarah Suits Obenauf, is a collection of four wi…
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Henry IV Reviewed by Vanessa Cate The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles Through July 1 So, you’re considering putting down the money and making the three-plus hour commitment to see …
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 12:32AMLaertes Loves Hamlet Loves Ophelia Reviewed by Julia Stier Lucid Dramatics Through June 22 In Laertes Loves Hamlet Loves Ophelia — a modernized take on Hamlet playing this month at …
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 12:18AMThe Study Reviewed by Angie Hoover Make Believe Stage Productions (Hollywood Fringe Festival) Through June 23 The Study, directed by Jared Tyrel Pixler and written by David Evan Stolwort…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 12:11AMGloria Reviewed by Vanessa Cate Lounge Theatre (Hollywood Fringe Festival) Through June 21 New Zealand writer/performer Amy Waller brings the story of her nana to life in her one-woman …
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Play On! A Musical Romp with Shakespeare’s Heroines Reviewed by Julia Stier Laura Jo Trexler (Hollywood Fringe Festival) Through June 24 “If music be the food of love… PLAY ON!”…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 11:54PMHouse of Tales Reviewed by Angie Hoover Make Believe Stage Productions (Hollywood Fringe Festival)Through June 23 House of Tales, written and directed by Changting Lu with an ensemble of l…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 11:36PMDorothy & Alice: An Aerial Play Reviewed by Angie Hoover Aeriform Arts Studio (Hollywood Fringe Festival)Closed Two lesbians walk into a bar… and hang from it as it ascends 10 ft. in…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 11:23PMWednesday, June 20, 2018
Easy Targets: Artists and Heroes Reviewed by Vanessa Cate Burglars of Hamm (Hollywood Fringe Festival) Through June 22 Out of 390 shows in this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, more t…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 12:59PMTuesday, June 19, 2018
Sam Shaber: Life, Death, and Duran Duran Reviewed by Julia Stier The Ruby Theatre at The Complex Hollywood (Hollywood Fringe Festival) Through June 21 Sam Shaber has known a lot of j…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 11:13PMFrankenstein Reviewed by Dana Martin Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group Through June 30th Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group has created a monster. An unsettling, innovat…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 11:06PMFreebird Goes to Mars Reviewed by Iris Mann Lounge Theatre (Hollywood Fringe Festival) Through June 24 RECOMMENDED Rarely do 45 minutes fly by as quickly as they do in this solo show …
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 10:56PMLife on Hiatus Reviewed by Iris Mann Lounge Theatre (Hollywood Fringe Festival) Closed Australian writer/ performer Lachlan the Bray has crafted an intricate piece of spoken word poet…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 10:42PMTar Reviewed by Neal Weaver Playwrights’ Arena Through July 2 RECOMMENDED It’s Los Angeles in 1939. Count Basie and his band are scheduled to play at the Palomar Ballroom — one of…
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Still Reviewed by Vanessa Cate Actors Company (Hollywood Fringe) Through June 24th A girl goes to a party. She likes the way she’s dressed, she feels pretty. She lets her guard down …
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The Reverend JEAU’s Revival Reviewed by Lara J. Altunian The Hobgoblin Playhouse (Hollywood Fringe Festival) Closed The Reverend JEAU’s Revival (written by Joshua Raff, Lizz Leiser, …
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 04:48PMTuesday, June 12, 2018
The Word Reviewed by Lovell Estell III Three Clubs (Hollywood Fringe Festival) Through June 23 It could well be that sometime in the future inner-city churches and preachers of the “pr…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 09:33PMSpiritual Ecstasy Reviewed by Vanessa Cate The Lounge Theatre (Hollywood Fringe Festival) Through June 16 While I am loath to rigidly define what is or is not “theatre”, it is admi…
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