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Deadly Reviewed by Deborah Klugman Sacred Fools Theater Company Through November 2 Numerous books have been written about H. H. Holmes, a 19th century serial killer and con man who was ultimately executed for the murder of his accomplice, Benjamin Pitezel, in 1896. Interrogated by police, Holmes claimed to have killed 27 people, including three […]
In Circles Reviewed by Lovell Estell III Odyssey Theatre Ensemble Through November 10 Gertrude Stein was a poet, novelist, essayist and playwright who is generally regarded as one of the more influential female writers of the 20th century. Her style was anything but conventional, and we have her to thank for such pithy expressions as […]
The Gin Game Reviewed by Taylor Kass Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum Through September 29 Wendell (Allen Blumenfeld) and Fonsia (Katherine James) aren’t your cuddly cookie-baking grandparents. These card shark retirees play endless games of gin, as well as swear, argue, and (almost) fall in love. The pair inhabit The Gin Game, the 1978 Pulitzer Prize […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Reviewed by Emily Hawkins Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group Through September 28 A nondescript, unassuming storefront in North Hollywood, advertising an upcoming production of Urban Death Tour of Terror seems a suspicious venue for the Shakespearean classic, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It’s a tale that encapsulates fairies, a company of actors and misbegotten […]
Latin History for Morons Reviewed by Katie Buenneke Center Theatre Group Through October 20 John Leguizamo has a remarkable knack for drawing an audience in and making them feel comfortable immediately. Before you realize you’re even watching a one-man show, you’re well into it, you’ve unknowingly taken a leap of faith and you’re trusting this […]
The Heal Reviewed by Deborah Klugman The Getty Villa Through September 28 RECOMMENDED: Everyone is wounded — that’s the overarching theme of The Heal, writer/director Aaron Posner’s ironical, imaginative play about living with pain and choosing to do the right thing even if you’re unclear just what that thing might be. Those three words reprise over […]
The Chinese Lady Reviewed by Taylor Kass Greenway Arts Alliance and Artists at Play Through September 29 Her name is Afong Moy. She came to America in 1834, when she was 14 years old. She sits in a room at the museum, an exotic bird in a gilded cage, gawked at by hundreds of American […]
Witch Reviewed by Deborah Klugman Geffen Playhouse Through September 29 RECOMMENDED: Witch, Jen Silverman’s incisive illuminating play directed by Marti Lyons at Geffen Playhouse, draws inspiration from The Witch of Edmonton, a Jacobean melodrama conceived around the real-life tragedy of an elderly woman named Elizabeth Sawyer, burned as a witch in the British community of […]
