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A Heated DiscussionReviewed by Joseph KlinkThe Robey Theatre CompanyThrough May 15RECOMMENDEDThe Robey Theatre Company has elevated the voices of people-of-color for almost 30 years. Their co-founders, Ben Guillory (Artistic Director) and Danny Glover, have responded to the history and the everyday lives of BIPOC Americans with powerful works on the stage. When going to see […]
Classic Couples CounselingReviewed by Iris MannTheatre WestThrough May 8Lloyd J. Schwartz’s clever spoof on some of Shakespear’s iconic characters is based on a provocative premise. A psychotherapist named Dr.Patricia Cataldo (Constance Mellors) counsels five couples from some of the Bard’s most famous plays, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth. If performed with a […]
The Concrete Jungle (A Chicano Horror Play) Reviewed by Martίn HernándezThe Loft EnsembleThrough April 23“Man is divided in two,” a character declares early on in Travyz Santos Gatz’s adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s In The Jungle of the Cities, with that division depicted as a metaphoric boxing match between Capital and Labor. The original play came […]
PODCAST: Stages of Our City: Episode 8: Amanda Andrei and Julyza Commodore Produced by Julia Stier In Episode 8, Amanda and Julyza on Blues for an Alabama Sky (Mark Taper Forum) In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play (Open Fist Theatre), On the Other Hand, We’re Happy (Rogue Machine), Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies (Echo […]
A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney Reviewed by Deborah KlugmanThe Odyssey Theatre Thru May 1RECOMMENDEDJohn Updike once called Mickey Mouse “the most persistent and pervasive figure of American popular culture in his century.” The mouse came into being in 1928, birthed by a young animator named Walt Disney. For […]
True WestReviewed by Taylor KassThe Group RepThrough May 8th RECOMMENDEDWhen True West premiered in 1980, the West – as a land of rugged individuality and personal reinvention — was already gone. But Sam Shepard’s taut two-hander about the futile search for authenticity is still sharp in 2022, when there’s even less truth to be found in […]
Buyer & CellarReviewed by Martίn HernándezCelebration TheatreThrough April 17RECOMMENDEDThe title of Jonathan Tolins’s outlandish one-person comedy, taking on celebrity worship and self-discovery, not only telegraphs the play’s setting but could also be taken as a metaphor for the market exchange inherent in capitalism. Blurring the line between who is buying and who is selling, the […]
A Death-Defying EscapeReviewed by Iris MannHudson Guild TheatreThrough May 15RECOMMENDEDJudy Carter’s compelling autobiographical play is a well-integrated combination of magic, comedy and poignancy. The show is particularly impressive for having a number of effects in a very small space. The “escape” of the title is an escape from what was painful in her past. Her […]
