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Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord Reviewed by Socks Whitmore Center Theatre Group, co-produced with East West Players Through March 12 RECOMMENDED Back in 2020, actor-comedian Kristina Wong was touring her one-woman show Kristina Wong for Public Office, a solo performance/satirical political campaign based on the premise that it’s all performance anyway. In March . . . […]
LOVE…or Best Offer Reviewed by F. Kathleen Foley Group Rep at the Lonny Chapman Theatre Through March 19 Phil Olson, author of some 18 published plays, many of which have been widely produced, is nothing if not prolific.If LOVE…or Best Offer, Olson’s current world premiere being presented by The Group Rep at the Lonny Chapman […]
tick, tick…Boom! Reviewed by Dana Martin International City Theatre Through March 5 Jonathan Larson’s semi-autobiographical rock musical tick, tick…Boom! opens the 2023 season at Long Beach International City Theatre. The production is earnest but struggles to find synthesis.New York City, circa 1990. Jon (Ernesto Figueroa), a waiter and struggling young composer, is on the threshold […]
All This Intimacy Reviewed by Julia Lloyd George studio/stage Through February 19 They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. If that’s true, expect a rather maddening protagonist in the form of Ty (Héctor Zapata), a poetry professor who has managed to impregnate three women in […]
Come Get Maggie Reviewed by Socks Whitmore Rogue Machine Theatre at The Matrix Through March 26 RECOMMENDED Content AdvisoryJohn Perrin Flynn, the producing artistic director of Rogue Machine Theatre, states clearly in the program for their latest production: “We don’t do musicals.” And yet, the show itself — the world-premiere run of Come Get Maggie, […]
Garbo’s Cuban Lover Reviewed by Julyza Commodore MACHA Theatre Co. Through February 25 RECOMMENDED MACHA Theatre Co. presents Garbo’s Cuban Lover, an imagining of Greta Garbo’s rumored romantic relationship with Mercedes de Acosta. Written by Odalys Nanin and co-directed by Nanin (also starring as de Acosta) and Angela Nicholas, the play’s foundation is their relationship. […]
Call Me Elizabeth Reviewed by F. Kathleen Foley Sierra Madre Playhouse Through February 19 RECOMMENDED It requires temerity to play Elizabeth Taylor, arguably the most luminously beautiful woman to earn the title of Hollywood “star,” in the largest, most grandiose sense of the word.In her one-woman show, Call Me Elizabeth, an offering in Sierra Madre […]
Well-Behaved Women Reviewed by V Cate Ophelia’s Jump Through March 12 The title of the play evokes the oft-used quote, “Well-behaved women seldom make history” (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich), reminding us that the traditional femme roles of reservation, subservience, and amenability rarely ensure remembrance. Of course, this carries the implication that the gendered act of conforming […]
