The Revolutionists Reviewed by Julyza CommodoreTheatre FortyThrough June 18RECOMMENDED Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists focuses on four women during the French Revolution: playwright Olympe De Gouges (Kat Kemmet), most famously known for being an assassin; Charlotte Corday (Sami Stumman), the last Queen of France before the Revolution; Marie Antoinette (Meghan Lloyd); and a passionate Haitian rebel, […]

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The Book of Will Reviewed by F. Kathleen FoleyA Noise WithinThrough June 7RECOMMENDEDEven though we are well aware that Shakespeare’s First Folio was successfully published, The Book of Will, Lauren Gunderson’s play about the Herculean effort to compile the plays into that folio, is surprisingly suspenseful — a gripping, edge of your seat yarn with enough […]

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Matinicus: The Story of Abigail BurgessReviewed by G. Bruce SmithChance TheaterThrough June 4RECOMMENDEDA delightful and entertaining evening of theater, here is also an example of good old-fashioned storytelling in the vein of Anne of Green Gables.This world premiere, one-woman show based on a true story, everything from the acting, directing and set, lighting and sound […]

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The Merchant of Venice (Annotated)Reviewed by Steven Leigh MorrisTheatre Dybbuk in partnership with the First Congregational Church of Los AngelesThrough May 21RECOMMENDEDSee Stage featureFirst Congregational church of Los Angeles, Shatto Chapel, 540 S. Commonwealth Ave., LA: Fri.-St., 8 pm; Sun., 7 pm; through May 21. https://merchant-annotated.eventbrite.com  Two hours and 45 minutes, with one 15 minute intermission.

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On This Side of the WorldReviewed by F. Kathleen FoleyEast West Players at the David Henry Hwang TheaterThrough June 14RECOMMENDED At the opening performance of On This Side of the World, Snehal Desai, producing artistic director of East West Players, gave a pre-show address about the legacy of the Little Tokyo-based theater, for almost 60 years the preeminent […]

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A New BrainCelebration Theatre in association with the Los Angeles LGBT CenterReviewed by Taylor KassThrough June 24RECOMMENDEDWhen your brain is in trouble, what happens to everything that makes you, you? Composer William Finn wrote the semi-autobiographical musical A New Brain after an arteriovenous malformation in his brain landed him in the hospital and threatened to […]

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AvaazReviewed by Martίn HernándezSouth Coast Repertory Through May 27RECOMMENDEDAfter actor-playwright Michael Shayan’s years of pestering his Iranian-Jewish immigrant mother Roya to tell her life story, she finally relented to being recorded. After a writing retreat exercise, he took his mother’s interview and his own imagination and melded them together to craft a compelling one-person show. […]

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can i touch it?Reviewed by Deborah KlugmanRogue Machine at the Matrix TheatreThrough June 11RECOMMENDEDShow me a play about a working woman who pits her strength and smarts against predatory banks, and you’ll have me rooting for it, and her, from the start.Directed by Gregg T. Daniel, francisca da silveira’s can i touch it?, a rolling […]

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