254 stories by "Abe"
Katie Lowes By Graham Sibley After spending just a moment or two with Katie Lowes it's easy to understand why she is so busy. You don't have to look too hard and you'll see her either si…
Theatre and religion, two topics not to be discussed in polite company. No, wait, that's politics and religion, but then that's pretty much being redundant. Ok, here's what we're really talk…
The award winning Rogue Machine Theatre presents World Premiere of ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI by Kemp Powers. Opening June 8th, 2013 in Los Angeles. Tickets and info at www.RogueMachineTheatre.com
East West Players with generous support from the S. Mark Taper Endowment for East West Players presents: CHESS Book by Richard Nelson Lyrics by Tim Rice Music by Benny Andersson & Bjorn …
OPENING NIGHT (THEATRE 40): 92% " SWEET SWEET The show beamed with brilliance… from the direction, acting, and writing. Even the set decorators were deserving of applause, proving yet agai…
THE CRUCIBLE (ANTAEUS): 94% " SWEET SWEET Arthur Miller's dramatization of the Salem witch trials has rarely if ever seemed as timeless or proven as powerful as it does in The Antaeus Compan…
The Los Angeles Theatre scene is vast and at times disparate, there has been one voice which tried to bind the scene over the last four decades. That voice was Lee Melville. A writer, critic…
International City Theatre invites high school students to see shows for FREE International City Theatre is offering high school students free tickets to preview performances for the reminde…
THE SIZE OF PIKE (MOVING ARTS): 100% " SWEET SWEET Boys will be boys and men will be men, though the distinction between the two is more likely one of personal income rather than emotional m…
THE WOMEN (THEATRE WEST): 100% " SWEET SWEET These divas under Lewis' fine pace are fun and most definitely entertaining. Luce's perspectives are intelligent; The Women is a marvel for its t…
THE MATCHMAKER (ACTORS CO-OP): 100% " SWEET SWEET In a season that has included a brilliantly reconceived The World Goes Round and superbly acted revivals of Agatha Christie's And Then There…
MY MOTHER'S KEEPER: 100% " SWEET SWEET The dialogue is engaging, amusing and at times quite touching. The acting is superb across the board with Zimmerman and Giosa stealing the best moments…
PARADE (3-D THEATRICALS): 100% " SWEET SWEET Unlike Uhry's dull-as-dishwater "Driving Miss Daisy," I found "Parade" consistently compelling, but a little too entertaining in an unsettling wa…
William Shakespeare’s Timon Athens performed by the Los Angeles Drama Club / Shakespeare in the City. Artistic Director Blair Baron Larsen, Executive Director Julia Walker Wyson, Co-Di…
ONE WHITE CROW: 100% " SWEET SWEET Playwright Dale Griffiths Stamos' drama boasts a charged debate about faith versus science that's engagingly even-handed and surprisingly evocative. Paul B…
REAL MEN SING SHOW TUNES…AND PLAY WITH PUPPETS: 100% " SWEET SWEET If you need a good laugh right about now run, don't walk, to catch this kick of a show, which does for men what Menopause…
STEEL MAGNOLIAS (LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE): 100% " SWEET SWEET At the Laguna Playhouse, a solid cast distinguished by a couple of talented veterans delivers a well-crafted version of Robert Harling'…
CRUMBLE (LAY ME DOWN JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE) (THEATRE 68): 90% " SWEET SWEET Strip the play of all its craziness and universal struggles emerges that everyone deals with: death and discovering wh…
A bold and thrilling new musical from the creators of “Chicago” and “Cabaret.” “The Scottsboro Boys” will have you tapping your toes and screaming for…
HEMOPHELIA'S HOUSE OF HORRORS: 100% " SWEET SWEET The Visceral Company presents a frightfully fun excursion into laugh-out-loud funny horror; an eclectic collection of sketches that range fr…
TIMON OF ATHENS (PORTERS OF HELLSGATE): 100% " SWEET SWEET I love Shakespeare. I love good Shakespeare. I love when a company of talented performers can make something very old and very fami…
JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE (MARK TAPER): 93% " SWEET SWEET This powerfully acted production of "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," which opened Wednesday at the Mark Taper Forum under the directio…
Set in the boxing world of the early 1900s, The Royale is loosely inspired by Jack Johnson, the first black pop culture icon and reigning world heavyweight champion from 1908 to 1915. Th…
It’s August 1911. The Great Migration brings a revolving band of strangers to the door of Seth and Bertha’s Pittsburgh boarding house. Lost souls migrating to the industrial Nort…
Arthur Miller’s parable draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch trials of 1692 and subsequent generations of American mass hysteria – up to the present. Through this sa…
