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What If They Went to Moscow? Reviewed by Julyza Commodore REDCAT Closed [Note: This review is part of the Z. Clark Branson/Stage Raw Equity and Inclusion Initiative for Young Journalists. Stage Raw staff are mentoring the young authors, as they build their professional resumes as arts journalists.] Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters is set at the turn […]
Hype Man Reviewed by Ezra Bitterman The Fountain Theatre Through April 14 [Note: This review is part of the Z. Clark Branson/Stage Raw Equity and Inclusion Initiative for Young Journalists. Stage Raw staff are mentoring the young authors, as they build their professional resumes as arts journalists.] Idris Goodwin’s Hype Man arrives at the Fountain Theatre from […]
Fifty Words Reviewed by Deborah Klugman The Lounge Theatre Through April 7 Playwright Michael Weller’s messy marital drama transpires over the course of one night, during which time a married couple unleash all the frustration, disappointment and unrequited passion they’ve kept bottled inside for 18 long years. The clash between these two misfortunate individuals is […]
Home Reviewed by Stephen Fife Latino Theater Company Extended through March 31 RECOMMENDED Midway through Home, Nancy Ma’s solo show about growing up Chinese-American, Ma tells about an epiphany that changed her life.At the time, Ma had a well-paying job with a law firm in San Francisco, which made her family in New York City very happy. It […]
Escape from Godot Reviewed by Stephen Fife Mister & Mischief Through March 24 RECOMMENDED Escape from Godot, currently running at The YARD Theatre, is an interactive theatrical puzzle that starts with a funny idea and goes in an interesting direction with it. How interesting a direction depends on the audience members with whom you see the […]
Hamlet Reviewed by Lovell Estell III The 6th Act Through March 31 Shakespeare’s best plays are a rich source of complex, conflicted characters and readily lend themselves to creative, critical exploration or inspired adaptations. Of course, there are always risks when treading the path of the unconventional, but there are also creative successes. Director Matthew Leavitt’s […]
Pure Native Reviewed by Terry Morgan Wells Fargo Theater at the Autry Museum of the American West Through March 24 Theatrically, Los Angeles is blessed in many ways, and one of them is the presence of Native Voices at the Autry, the only Equity theatre company devoted exclusively to developing and producing new works from Native […]
The Glass Menagerie Reviewed by Vanessa Cate A Noise Within Through April 26 It’s the 1930s in St. Louis, and Tom Wingfield is suffocating. Figuratively. In an apartment building writer Tennessee Williams describes as “one of those vast hive-like conglomerations of cellular living-units that flower as warty growths in overcrowded urban centres of lower-middle-class population and are symptomatic of the […]
