254 stories by "Abe"
HANDBALL: 100% " SWEET SWEET Handball is a tremendous work of art that employs a vast array of unique characters living very divergent lives around a handball court in New York City. Joe Str…
DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY CHRISTMAS: 90% " SWEET SWEET Paul Storiale's farce Dysfunctional Family Christmas shows what might happen to a typical off-beat family if their world got turned inside o…
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (A NOISE WITHIN): 100% " SWEET SWEET A virtual Who's Who of veteran A Noise Within resident artists join forces with a sensational design team under the inspired direction …
STOREFRONT CHURCH: 90% " SWEET BITTERSWEET At times, their changes of heart are improbably abrupt, but for the most part Ronnie Marmo's smoothly paced staging evokes sympathetic, clearly def…
EBONY REPERTORY THEATRE TO PRESENT TWO-TIME EMMY AWARD-WINNER KEITH DAVID IN DRAMA DESK AWARD-WINNER PHILLIP HAYES DEAN'S "PAUL ROBESON" DEAN IS SET TO MAKE HIS LOS ANGELES DIRECTORIAL DEBUT…
THEY'RE BACK! Neil LaBute directs Jenna Fischer, Thomas Sadoski, Gia Crovatin and Josh Stamberg in "Reasons to Be Happy" L.A. Theatre Works follows up its Sept. recording of "Reasons to Be P…
The best present . . . Each year, as I prepare to usher out the old and welcome in the new, (this is symbolic, not realistic on my part " ask my wife), I recount the past year and try to be …
MIRACLE ON SOUTH DIVISION STREET: 100% " SWEET SWEET This cute play is full of humor and surprises and will keep you thoroughly amused until the final curtain. Just when you thought you've h…
BREAKING AND ENTERING (ZOMBIE JOE'S UNDERGROUND): 94% " SWEET SWEET The evening's tale begins like something reminiscently reverse of the hit film "Misery" and eventually collapses in on its…
A PERFECT LIKENESS: 100% " SWEET SWEET Anyone who is a fan of the finest intimate theater will enjoy this show and for those who have a fondness for Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll will re…
BARRYMORE (GOOD PEOPLE THEATER): 92% " SWEET SWEET It's a fusty, dusty tribute to a man and to an art form that once trafficked in fame, and now have been largely relegated to anecdotes of a…
THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS (THE MUSICAL) (CHROMOLUME THEATRE): 100% " SWEET SWEET Though produced on a considerably smaller budget than its Los Angeles Premiere at the Colony back in 2006, The …
Extended to Dec 15th! Rave Reviews! Critic’s Pick! Ovation Award Recommended! The acclaimed LA revival of the landmark play by Larry Kramer. A riveting social drama, a powerful love st…
Neel Keller By Graham Sibley Neel Keller talks fast and you can tell he's thinking even faster. Â After sitting down with him for a little over an hour I feel like I learned more about the…
GIDION’S KNOT a play by Johnna Adams directed by Darin Anthony starring Vonessa Martin and Paula Cale Lisbe produced by Furious Theatre Company music by The Insider
Recently I sat on a panel for the Producing School, a project spearheaded by Mike Abramson of DOMA Productions and Schoen Smith of Venture Hill Entertainment. There were about 25 peo…
There's a commonly held opinion, not just in LA, but around the country, that Los Angeles is not a theatre town. Before we get a bunch of folks screaming at me for repeating this slander…
WILD IN WICHITA (LATC): 92% " SWEET SWEET Carolina Ortiz's minimalist backdrop, combined with John A. Garofalo's lighting, evokes the windswept, wide open spaces of the Midwest, and Blasor's…
TOTEM (CIRQUE DU SOLEIL): 100% " SWEET SWEET Carl Fillion's versatile set and Pedro Pires' projections integrate beautifully, evoking landscapes both terrestrial and celestial. Occasionally …
INVISIBLE CITIES: 100% " SWEET SWEET The happening itself, however, is far from irrelevant or inconsequential. Regardless of the material, this joint production from The Industry and L.A. Da…
WHAT: The Columnist " Richard Schiff, David Krumholtz, JoBeth Williams and Tara Lynne Barr star in the West Coast premiere of the sensitive and humorous new drama …
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. (Oct. 21, 2013) " Deaf West Theatre is extending its unique signed/voiced production of Flowers for Algernon for two additional weeks through Nov. 17. Performances will …
WAIT UNTIL DARK (GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE): 90% " SWEET SWEET While television has mined most of its inspirations for innumerable episodics, Wait Until Dark remains unquestionably a sturdy construct…
In this toxic triangle, Adolph anxiously awaits the return of his wife Tekla to their seaside resort, comforted by his world-wise advisor Gustav. But Adolf soon finds himself in the center o…
