Stage Raw has assembled a list of stage performances that stand out from the pack. Check back often for our Los Angeles theater recommendations.

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and SpikeReviewed by G. Bruce SmithLittle Fish TheatreThrough September 3RECOMMENDEDYou don’t have to be familiar with Chekhov’s plays to enjoy the latest offering by Little Fish Theatre in San Pedro —Christopher Durang’s sometimes-zany, sometimes-absurdist, and often-funny Tony award-winning comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Still, your enjoyment will […]

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Reviewed by Taylor KassIndependent Shakespeare CompanyThrough September 3RECOMMENDEDAnything can happen in the woods. In Shakespeare’s iconic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hermia (Justine Faith) and Lysander (Patrick Batiste Jr.) are head over heels in love, but her father orders her to marry Demitrius (Kelvin Morales) instead. Hermia and Lysander plan to […]

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A View from The Bridge

A View from The Bridge

A View from The BridgeReviewed by Martίn HernándezRuskin TheatreThrough October 8RECOMMENDEDIn the early 1950s, playwright Arthur Miller and his friend Elia Kazan pitched Miller’s dockworker-based screenplay The Hook, with Kazan as the proposed director, to Columbia Pictures’ boss Harry Cohn. When Cohn – and the FBI – wanted to change the corrupt union villains from […]

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Heroes of the Fourth Turning

Heroes of the Fourth Turning

Heroes of the Fourth TurningReviewed by Katie BuennekeRogue MachineThrough October 2RECOMMENDEDIt’s probably fair to generalize that most theater audiences, particularly audiences in Los Angeles, skew towards the stereotype of “coastal liberals.” Given this, it seems unlikely that the theatergoing public would want to watch Heroes of the Fourth Turning, a play set in rural Wyoming, […]

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Proof

Proof

ProofReviewed by Steven Leigh MorrisDig Deep Theatre/Olive Branch Theatricals at The MainThrough August 20RECOMMENDED David Auburn’s 2000 drama, Proof, (originally produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club) received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play in what must have been a very slow year. New plays that hurtle around the regional theaters […]

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Twelfth Night: A Darkly Enchanting Burlesque Affair

Twelfth Night: A Darkly Enchanting Burlesque Affair

Twelfth Night: A Darkly Enchanting Burlesque AffairReviewed by F. Kathleen FoleyToil and Trouble Burlesque at The Three ClubsThrough August 26RECOMMENDEDYou may come out of Twelfth Night: A Darkly Enchanting Burlesque Affair feeling as if your head has been caught in a blender.But it’s a good dizziness, the kind you get after exiting the highest velocity […]

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Pipeline

Pipeline

PipelineReviewed by Martín HernándezArt of Acting StudioThrough Aug. 19RECOMMENDED“The source of this fight is older than the bricks in this building,” intones one of playwright Dominique Morisseau’s characters in her knotty but compelling indictment of the “school to prison pipeline” that pits primarily Black male students against a racist and increasingly carceral education system. While […]

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Tevye in New York

Tevye in New York

Tevye In New York!Reviewed by Martín HernándezDugan’s Backyard PlayhouseThrough August 6RECOMMENDEDBetween 1895 and 1914, Sholem Aleichem, the pen name of author Solomon Rabinovich, wrote tales in Yiddish about Tevye, the devout Jewish dairyman, his family, and their travails in their small village in the Ukraine, then part of Imperial Russia. For those who only know […]

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A Bella Incarceration

A Bella Incarceration

A Bella IncarcerationReviewed by Julia Lloyd GeorgeEcho Theater CompanyThru August 22RECOMMENDEDFrom its very first moments, Ann Noble’s one-woman show, A Bella Incarceration, offers no easy answers. There is the actor/playwright in blue scrubs, a pink clown nose, and a blonde wig. Confined to a child’s playpen representing a prison, she doesn’t seem to have much […]

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Group Therapy

Group Therapy

Group TherapySweet Talk Productions at Theatre 68 Arts ComplexReviewed by Taylor KassThrough August 20thRECOMMENDEDIt’s Waiting for Godot for mental health-conscious millennials – after a time-change mixup lands Jonathan (Andy Hoff) and Cassandra (Marnina Schon) in their therapist’s waiting room at the same time and a local emergency delays their therapist, the unlikely pair have nothing […]

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