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Lear/Loman Reviewed by Terry Morgan 2Cents Theatre Group at the Hollywood Fringe Festival Through June 30 It begins with mad old King Lear (Leon Russom) standing on a table and raging against yet more “cataracts and hurricanoes,” gleefully flipping a set of double birds at fate, only to be interrupted by Martha from Who’s Afraid of Virginia […]
The Book of Briarshire Reviewed by Terry Morgan Good Shows at the Hollywood Fringe Festival Through June 30 In a medieval kingdom, young warrior Ylva (Kelly Moore) has been tasked by the King (Celeste Pechous) to slay a dragon. Ylva is happy to have a chance to show off her battle skills and be like her long-missing […]
Start Swimming Reviewed by Taylor Kass Indomitus Theatre Company – The Hollywood Fringe Festival Through June 29 This is America. There is no room for mistakes. Stand on the grass and you might get shot. If your train runs late, you might get fired. Start Swimming is a surreal, movement-based, theatrical manifesto about the systematic […]
The Birds Reviewed by Taylor Kass Sacred Fools Theater Company – The Hollywood Fringe Festival Through June 27 Euelpides (Lemon Baardsen) and Pithetaerus (Brenda Varda) have decided that Athens is for the birds. Epops (Marc Antonio Pritchett), a man-turned-bird, takes them under his wing and introduces them to his feathered friends. In no time at […]
Loot Reviewed by Lovell Estell III Odyssey Theatre Ensemble Through August 10 RECOMMENDED Joe Orton was an unabashedly gay male who took delight in trashing the narrow, conservative norms of British society. His public life was tragically short, but influential. He once spent six months in prison (along with his longtime companion, lover and eventual […]
Herland Reviewed by Deborah Klugman Greenway Arts Alliance Through June 23 It’s not often we have a story that spotlights a friendship between an elderly woman and a much younger one. It’s a welcome notion, and the primary draw for playwright Grace McLeod’s Herland, a National New Play Network rolling world premiere, directed by Tiffany […]
Ladies Reviewed by Deborah Klugman Boston Court Pasadena Through June 30 RECOMMENDED: Even in the darkest, most unenlightened era, there have been women prepared, often driven, to buck the strictures placed upon their gender. Ladies, Kit Steinkellner’s illuminating world premiere play directed by Jessica Kubzansky at Boston Court Pasadena, imagines what it must be like […]
PoeZest Reviewed by Stephen Fife The ARK Theatre Company Through July 7 PoeZest is the latest iteration of the one-man show about Edgar Allan Poe that his only living descendant, Edgar Allan Poe IV, has been presenting in various theatres in the Los Angeles area for the last decade. This latest version has taken up […]
