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The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity Reviewed by Dana MartinChance TheatreThru October 23The Chance Theatre is pulling nothing but power moves this season. Kristoffer Diaz’s 2009 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, is masculinity on overdrive.Macedonio Guerra, or The Mace (Rudy Solis III) knows his wrestling history. What’s more, he reveres the […]
Daddy IssuesReviewed by Iris MannDorie Theatre @ The ComplexThrough November 13This play by writer-director David Goldyn tries hard to be a farce, with mistaken identities and surprising revelations. But it is so full of clichés, exaggerations that come out of nowhere, and unbelievable cardboard caricatures, which don’t emerge from the characters and fail to amuse, […]
(Un)DocumentsReviewed by Joseph KlinkLatino Theater Company – The Los Angeles Theatre CenterThrough November 20th RECOMMENDED There is a responsibility in understanding the value of our freedom; yet, why are we still allowing systems that fail immigrants to decide the cost of theirs? Every day, I hear stories filled with heartbreak and resilience that do not […]
Mother Sisters Reviewed by Taylor KassThe Echo Theatre CompanyThrough October 27RECOMMENDEDYou never forget your firsts. Playwright Makaela Vogel has curated her unique family story into a “docu-play” featuring the oral histories of each of her eight aunts who grew up in a Catholic family in New Mexico. It’s a simple, straightforward series of direct-address monologues with […]
Farragut NorthReviewed by Deborah KlugmanFoursome Productions at Theatre 68 Arts ComplexThru November 5Before becoming a playwright and screenwriter, Beau Willimon worked as a political operative, toiling behind the scenes on the campaigns of Chuck Schumer, Hilary Clinton, Bill Bradley and Howard Dean. Willimon left politics in 2004, subsequently translating his experiences as a ringside player […]
Basement FollyReviewed by Martίn HernándezTheatre Forty Through October 26What if Phoebe and Chandler from Friends had gotten married and settled in Los Angeles? Hey, stranger things have happened. After 20-plus years of wedded bliss they could well have turned out like the middle-class couple at the heart of playwright David Datz’s muddled domestic comedy. And […]
Inconceivable Reviewed by Julyza CommodoreHudson Guild Theatre Thru Dec. 12 RECOMMENDEDInconceivable, a “totally true one-woman semi-fertile quasi-musical” show offers a candid look into the struggle to conceive that one in five women can relate to. (According to studies, 20 percent of women of child-bearing age are unable to become pregnant.) The show is written and performed […]
The MousetrapReviewed by Julia Lloyd GeorgeGroup Repertory Thru November 13RECOMMENDEDAgatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, the longest running play in the world, is a tremendously successful whodunnit for a reason—perhaps you can crack the case? A story of seven strangers stranded by a blizzard in a hotel and informed by a detective that a murderer hellbent on […]
