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The Man Who Came to Dinner Reviewed by Iris Mann The Group Rep Through January 12 RECOMMENDED This production of The Man Who Came to Dinner is Group Rep’s holiday gift to Los Angeles audiences, unwinding like a finely tuned instrument with cleverly coordinated moving parts.Written in 1939 by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, The […]
Bad Habits Reviewed by Taylor Kass Ruskin Group Theatre Company Through January 26 It’s going to take a miracle to save St. Cyril’s from the clutches of a greedy Bishop. Luckily, a miracle comes knocking one stormy December night in the figure of Maria (Kelsey Griswold), a young girl with a dark past and an […]
Disposable Necessities Reviewed by Terry Morgan Rogue Machine Theatre Through February 3 The adage, “Youth is wasted on the young,” is generally attributed to George Bernard Shaw, a man who didn’t lack for adages. The idea that youth can also be wasted on the old is one of the undercurrents that powers Neil McGowan’s play, […]
La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin Reviewed by Lara J. Altunian Latino Theater Company, with Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Closed RECOMMENDED In 1531, an Aztec peasant from Tepeyac (located in modern day Mexico City) — recently christened Juan Diego — saw an apparition of the Virgin Mary. She asked him to deliver a […]
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Reviewed by Julia Stier Greenway Court Theatre Through December 29 RECOMMENDED When 15-year-old Christopher Boone discovers the lifeless body of his neighbor’s dog speared with a garden fork, he sets out to discover who the murderer is. However, his investigative questions uncover more than he bargained for, and […]
La Bohème: AKA “The Hipsters” Reviewed by Julia Lloyd George Pacific Opera Project Through December 14 RECOMMENDED La Bohème is an opera that’s left no shortage of adaptations in its wake. Rent is probably the most famous of them, and the one which this playful hipster version of Giacomo Puccini’s original seems closest to.Set in […]
Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Musical Radio Play Reviewed by Dana Martin Actors Co-op Through December 15 The Actors Co-op finds Christmas spirit through 1940’s nostalgia this holiday season. Lance Arthur Smith’s new adaptation of Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Musical Radio Play has serious Christmas spirit, replete with a variety of Christmas music, old-timey […]
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Reviewed by Stephen Fife Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Closed When I told theater-savvy friends that I was attending a one-man version of A Christmas Carol at the Wallis Annenberg, the most frequent response was a sigh or a shrug. Yet another Christmas Carol? When I mentioned that […]
