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The Ramón Show: Spiritual Cheerleading 101Reviewed by Dana MartinHollywood FringeThrough June 23rdRECOMMENDEDRamón is here for you. He’s ready to welcome you into his casa for a self-love seminar that centers around kindness, hugs, dance breaks, stretch breaks, courage and many LOLs. The Ramón Show: Spiritual Cheerleading 101 is everything you never knew you needed in […]
SignalsHollywood FringeThrough June 26Reviewed by Dana MartinRECOMMENDEDThere’s something shady going on at The Foundation. The top-secret, seemingly organized corporate hierarchy has something sinister contained within its walls. Signals, the latest innovation from Last Call Theatre, is a delicious sci- fi, choose-your-own-adventure for theater nerds.Audience members are the “new recruits,” carefully selected to assist The Foundation […]
FlamencodanzaReviewed by Joseph KlinkHollywood Fringe Through June 25RECOMMENDEDAre you looking for something different this year at Hollywood Fringe? Start here. Flamencodanza is performed by dancer Aylin Bayaz and guitarist Raúl Mannola, and they are magnificent. Bayaz and Mannola completely assume the space at the Hudson Guild Theatre where they perform with a unique ferocity but also respect […]
Becoming Austin NationReviewed by Joseph KlinkHollywood Fringe Through June 24RECOMMENDEDBecoming Austin Nation – From Crack to PhD: A Drag Queen’s Story is an inspiring, autobiographical account of one person’s overcoming of life’s greatest difficulties and their finding even greater love.The show is performed in the Renberg Theatre, a space with high ceilings, intricate lighting and […]
The Bearer of Bad NewsReviewed by Socks WhitmoreHollywood FringeThru June 25 The 2022 Hollywood Fringe Festival (the first all-in-person Fringe since 2019) opened this weekend to great success, filling numerous Hollywood theaters with plays of all shapes and sizes. Among this line-up of the weird and wonderful was The Bearer of Bad News, an absurdist dark […]
Dog Reviewed by Deborah KlugmanHollywood Fringe FestivalThru June 25RECOMMENDEDBen Moroski won a Best of Fringe award in 2012 for The Vicious Minute and a Top of the Fringe award in 2014 for his solo performance of The Wake. This year he’s back at The Fringe with his latest solo piece, Dog— a downer of a […]
Uncle VanyaReviewed by Steven Leigh MorrisPasadena PlayhouseThrough June 26RECOMMENDEDHaving been largely weaned on the plays of Anton Chekhov, and his turn of the 20th century mingling of regret and humor while something, always something, is ending (Chekhov wrote as the Russian Revolution was brewing), I admit to a trepidation in seeing productions of plays by […]
Who Are You Reviewed by Martίn HernándezGreenway Court TheatreThrough June 19RECOMMENDEDWriter/performer Shareen Mitchell’s witty and insightful autobiographical script delivers both a sincere redemption tale and perhaps an inadvertent depiction of the rewards of White privilege, enhanced by Mitchell’s engrossing performance and direction by Kate Jopson.As model and actor Mitchell blissfully arrives at an Ojai meditation […]
