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BelovedReviewed by Deborah KlugmanThe Road TheatreThru June 19RECOMMENDEDBeloved, a world premiere play by Canadian playwright Arthur Holden, opens in a waiting room outside a counsellor’s office at a posh school, where an affluent upper-middle-aged couple await news of their son. Thirty minutes have gone by since they’ve arrived, and no one has summoned them in, […]
PODCAST: Stages of Our City: Episode 14: Inger Tudor, Terry Morgan and Steven Leigh Morris Produced by Julia Stier In Episode 14, Inger, Terry and Steven go back-and-forth on “King Lear” at the Wallis, “Tambo & Bones” at the Kirk Douglas, and “Mama, Mama, Can’t You See” (Coin & Ghost) In Episode 13, Julyza […]
Sondheim on SondheimReviewed by Steven Leigh MorrisOphelia’s JumpThru June 5RECOMMENDEDOriginally conceived and directed by James Lapine for a brief Broadway stint in 2010, this revue of Stephen Sondheim’s life and work received a new charge of pertinence in the wake of Sondheim’s death in November at the age of 91.The show includes a strong video […]
Hamlet Reviewed by Amanda L. AndreiAntaeus Theatre CompanyThrough June 20RECOMMENDEDI love a stage that rumbles when you walk in. With so many productions and versions of Shakespeare’s Hamletthroughout the centuries, it’s good to be reminded that the theater still growls.With Cricket Myers’ sound design providing the ominous aura, we enter a dark and sparse land, […]
King of the YeesReviewed by Taylor KassSierra Madre PlayhouseThrough June 12 RECOMMENDEDIn Sierra Madre Playhouse’s production of Lauren Yee’s King of the Yees, the playwright Lauren Yee (Harmony Zhang) is struggling to complete her play King of the Yees, a two-hander about herself and her father, Larry Yee. It’s a Russian doll of play-within-a-play about a […]
Our TownReviewed by Dana MartinSouth Coast RepertoryThrough June 4thIt may seem like nothing much happens in Thornton Wilder’s most important work, Our Town. It is a play, after all, about ordinary people living ordinary lives. But the 1938 Pulitzer Prize winner is quietly deep and profoundly moving. Edward Albee once described Wilder’s play as “the […]
The Pitch Reviewed by Martίn HernándezThe Lyric Hyperion TheatreThrough May 21An earnest father-daughter relationship and a rogue’s gallery of quirky salesmen are enough to hang on a rickety plot and wobbly direction to make for an amiable time in actor-playwright Tom Alper’s world premiere dramedy recounting his bizarre stint with a telemarketing firm in 2006.Tom […]
PODCAST: Stages of Our City: Episode 13: Julyza Commodore and Dana Martin Produced by Julia Stier In Episode 13, Julyza and Dana discuss “Hadestown” at the Ahmanson, “Live at the Purple Lounge” (about female standups at the Beverly Hills Playhouse), and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (Geffen) In Episode 12: Julia Socks and Steven […]
