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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and SpikeReviewed by G. Bruce SmithLittle Fish TheatreThrough September 3RECOMMENDEDYou don’t have to be familiar with Chekhov’s plays to enjoy the latest offering by Little Fish Theatre in San Pedro —Christopher Durang’s sometimes-zany, sometimes-absurdist, and often-funny Tony award-winning comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Still, your enjoyment will […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Reviewed by Taylor KassIndependent Shakespeare CompanyThrough September 3RECOMMENDEDAnything can happen in the woods. In Shakespeare’s iconic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hermia (Justine Faith) and Lysander (Patrick Batiste Jr.) are head over heels in love, but her father orders her to marry Demitrius (Kelvin Morales) instead. Hermia and Lysander plan to […]
A View from The BridgeReviewed by Martίn HernándezRuskin TheatreThrough October 8RECOMMENDEDIn the early 1950s, playwright Arthur Miller and his friend Elia Kazan pitched Miller’s dockworker-based screenplay The Hook, with Kazan as the proposed director, to Columbia Pictures’ boss Harry Cohn. When Cohn – and the FBI – wanted to change the corrupt union villains from […]
Heroes of the Fourth TurningReviewed by Katie BuennekeRogue MachineThrough October 2RECOMMENDEDIt’s probably fair to generalize that most theater audiences, particularly audiences in Los Angeles, skew towards the stereotype of “coastal liberals.” Given this, it seems unlikely that the theatergoing public would want to watch Heroes of the Fourth Turning, a play set in rural Wyoming, […]
ProofReviewed by Steven Leigh MorrisDig Deep Theatre/Olive Branch Theatricals at The MainThrough August 20RECOMMENDED David Auburn’s 2000 drama, Proof, (originally produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club) received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play in what must have been a very slow year. New plays that hurtle around the regional theaters […]
Twelfth Night: A Darkly Enchanting Burlesque AffairReviewed by F. Kathleen FoleyToil and Trouble Burlesque at The Three ClubsThrough August 26RECOMMENDEDYou may come out of Twelfth Night: A Darkly Enchanting Burlesque Affair feeling as if your head has been caught in a blender.But it’s a good dizziness, the kind you get after exiting the highest velocity […]
Brisk Festival Edition IIIReviewed by Martín HernándezMorgan Wixson TheatreThrough Sept. 9This international theatre festival has winnowed hundreds of submissions down to 52 entries, all ten-minute one-act plays, 31 in English and 21 in Spanish. Audience members and a jury of industry professionals vote on the best plays, with awards and a cash prize presented to […]
Venus in FurReviewed by Socks WhitmoreMcCadden Place TheatreThrough Sept. 3The term masochism (defined by the dictionary as “the tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from one’s own pain or humiliation”) is derived from the name of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, an Austrian author whose association with the subject stems from the plot of his best-known […]
