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can i touch it?Reviewed by Deborah KlugmanRogue Machine at the Matrix TheatreThrough June 11RECOMMENDEDShow me a play about a working woman who pits her strength and smarts against predatory banks, and you’ll have me rooting for it, and her, from the start.Directed by Gregg T. Daniel, francisca da silveira’s can i touch it?, a rolling […]
The Realistic JonesesReviewed by Dana MartinLaguna PlayhouseThrough May 14thCo-produced by the Laguna Playhouse, Gare St. Lazare Ireland and the Rubicon Theatre Company, The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno is a humorous, meandering examination of life’s mundane tribulations. The play is now running at the Laguna Playhouse as part of a rolling Southern California premiere.Longtime married […]
Why Worry? Jews R 2 Much FunReviewed by Iris MannSanta Monica PlayhouseThrough June 25In the spirit of the 1923 play, Abie’s Irish Rose, and the television series of the 1970s, Bridget Loves Bernie, playwright Jerry Mayer, who also served as producer and/or writer on that TV sitcom, has fashioned another work about interfaith marriage. Mayer […]
A Little Night MusicPasadena PlayhouseReviewed by Taylor KassThrough May 28RECOMMENDEDEveryone’s thinking about it, but no one’s doing it. Sex, of course. The characters in the late, great Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music are confused, corseted and cheated on until love and sex turn into a “humiliating business.” But glamorous actress Desirée Armfeldt (performed by […]
Under the SkinReviewed by G. Bruce SmithInternational City TheatreThrough May 14Under the Skin, currently at International City Theatre, is ostensibly about the human heart, flesh and blood, what parents and their children owe to each other, and whether blood is thicker than water. That, at least, is what characters in the play say. The problem […]
Favorite Cousins Reviewed by F. Kathleen FoleyCasa 0101 TheaterThrough May 21Perhaps the word gentrification doesn’t have to refer to real estate and property values alone. Perhaps it could refer to people as well — those individuals who flee their embattled ethnic neighborhoods for affluent enclaves that hold the promise of upward mobility and safety.That certainly applies […]
Whittier BoulevardReviewed by Deborah KlugmanThe Latino Theatre Company at LATCThrough May 28RECOMMENDEDIn a world grown progressively more dystopian, the collectively created Whittier Boulevard seems apt indeed —even more so for people of a certain age.An ensemble piece from the Latino Theater Company, made resonant by stunning projections and a sonorous score and sound, it’s a […]
Private LivesReviewed by Katie BuennekeIndependent Shakespeare CompanyThrough May 7It’s a delightfully genius idea, really—casting a married couple, two stalwarts of the LA theater scene, as the bickering central couple in a 1930 Noel Coward play. And that is exactly what the Independent Shakespeare Company has done, pitting Melissa Chalsma, the company’s artistic director and co-founder, […]
