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MarchReviewed by Dana MartinLos Angeles LGBT Center and Playwrights’ ArenaThrough November 15thLA’s LGBT Center and Playwrights’ Area have gone (COVID compliantly) rogue by staging high stakes drama in the LGBT Center parking garage. (The audience watches the action from within their cars, sound broadcast through a pre-set FM radio station.) March, conceived and directed by Jon Lawrence […]
Frankenstein Reviewed by Vanessa Cate Four Larks Closed RECOMMENDED “I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must […]
Alice in Wonderland Reviewed by Deborah Klugman A Noise Within Closed, due to COVID-19 RECOMMENDED: Sometimes, perhaps not as often as one might wish, a script that lacks a dramatic edge is transformed through the craft of the director and his or her company of technical artists and actors. This proves true with Alice in […]
Law and Order: The Musical! Reviewed by Lara J. Altunian Blooming Damsels Productions Through March 15 [NOTE: Closed early due to COVID-19] RECOMMENDED Dun-dun! The 20-season drama’s signature heartbeat-like rhythm plays overhead and the crowd goes wild. A longstanding staple of network television, Law & Order’s fans may be coaxed into watching anything attached to the series’s name. But Blooming […]
Sweet Land Reviewed by Julia Lloyd George The Industry Through March 22 [NOTE: Closed early due to COVID-19] RECOMMENDED The words “experimental” and “opera” are not ones that I have ever paired in a sentence before, yet they make shockingly natural companions in the astoundingly original Sweet Land, a site-specific opera from MacArthur grant “genius” Yuval […]
Death and Other Girly Things Reviewed by Julia Stier Loft Ensemble Through April 12 [NOTE: Remaining performances suspended due to COVID-19] Death. There’s no escaping it. It comes for us all. Some deal with this inevitability by hiding from it, others embrace it, and a few people even find comfort in it. When Pam (Katy […]
Glass Ceilings Reviewed by Julia Lloyd George Rockwell Table & Stage Through March 28 [NOTE: Remaining shows postponed due to COVID-19] RECOMMENDED In all honesty, seeing a you-go-girl musical about feminists throughout history during the week Elizabeth Warren ended her presidential campaign did not seem like an activity that would help me out of my […]
Antigone, Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine’s Reviewed by Taylor Kass Sacred Fools Theater Company Through April 11 [NOTE: Closed early due to COVID-19] St. Catherine’s Catholic girls’ school is bringing back drama club — and the show must go on. But what if that means covering up a scandal that has the potential […]
