BONE CALL When a young Bekah Brunstetter set out to explore where she stood on issues like animal rights, faith, and even relationships, it was before she had ever learned to question what s…
GET SKINNED Joshua Harmon's new play Skintight assays the nature of love, the power of attraction, and the ways in which a superficial culture persists in teaching its children that all that…
HOT, HOT, HOT I'm guessing most of you have not seen David H. Bell's rousing Hot Mikado, a swing-era adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's beloved 1885 operetta, The Mikado. It may be the fun…
KEEP IT GAY It's always springtime for Mel Brooks, who really does write musicals the way they used to. Even before Young Frankenstein, his 2001 triumph The Producers (based on the sidesp…
THERE WILL BE NO REVIEW This hasn't happened before and I hope it won't again. My regrets for a wasted night. I'm (sort of) sorry but, alas, I found last night's Goodman Theatre world premie…
GREAT THINGS ABOUT THE LOS ANGELES THEATRE Los Angeles, dubbed as the City of Angels, is truly a magnificent destination that holds some of the most beautiful architectural buildings in the …
GREEK ACTIVE It only seemed natural that Michael Cacoyannis's 1964 film, Zorba the Greek, about a happy-go-lucky fisherman on the isle of Crete, should one day become a musical. It took J…
THE DEVIL’S AT THE DOOR "He knows not Who lives most easily on land, how I Have spent my winter on the ice-cold sea Wretched and anxious, in the paths of exile Lacking dear friends, hu…
YOU’VE GOT SOME FEET TO MEET Call us saps or suckers but we can't, it seems, get enough of "The Understudy Who Becomes A Star." Not when the sweet and satisfying story is stuffed with …
A READY ROGUE MACHINE OPENS OPPENHEIMER J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant, enigmatic and complex man. Ambitious and charismatic, Oppenheimer found himself uniquely placed to spearhead th…
GENDER-SWITCHED REENACTMENT OF THE KAVANAUGH/FORD TESTIMONIES ONE NIGHT ONLY, TUESDAY OCTOBER 2 If you think the Senate hearings last week were high drama, imagine seeing them live in the th…
PLAY ON Opening Night of the 2018 PLAY LA Festival of New Plays takes place Friday, September 7, at CASA 0101. Doors open at 7:00 pm at the Casa 0101 Gallery space for Hotel Mariachi, …
SWEATING IT OUT Sweat, Lynn Nottage's 2017 Pulitzer winner for drama — couldn't have come at a better time. Since its arrival, the play has been hailed as a benchmark for our times. No…
TARANTINO IN THE STICKY SWAMPS OF SADNESS Tom Jacobson's Tar is from his The Ballad of Bimini Baths, a triad of works playing concurrently in Los Angeles. For half a century (1902-1951), the…
AN ACT IN THE DARK For her debut at 54 Below in NYC " a nearly solo cabaret which was recorded for release on Broadway Records " the triple-threat Arielle Jacobs opened by letting us know th…
"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared." Author Lois Lowry On June 28 & 29, Ford Theatres, in associat…
GAME OF THRONES — FROM THE SMALL SCREEN TO THE BIG CURTAIN Since HBO’s Game of Thrones hit our screens back in 2011, the show has gone on to become one of the most popular and…
GIMME THAT DO-RE-MI, BOYS The 1960 musical Do Re Mi is about a would-be big shot named Hubie Cram, a wheeler dealer who just can’t make the big time. As his wife Kay says, they have 40…
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT THIS SUMMER WITH TWO BIG SHOWS The West End, one of the great epicentres of the Theatrical world, is undergoing something of a renaissance these days. It has always popula…
57 CHEVY: THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT ANTIDOTE, OR HOW BROWN WAS MY VALLEY? There's palpable excitement surrounding the upcoming West Los Angeles engagement of Cris Franco's autobiographical comedy, …
SHORES ‘NUFF Texas-born playwright Del Shores, best known for his romp Sordid Lives (the hilarious play and movie that also introduced us to Leslie Jordan) is coming to the Celeb…
A BROADWAY AMUSEMENT PARK THAT FLIES LIKE A CARPET "Open sesame" indeed. It’s "Abracadabra" times ten as the arrival of Aladdin in Hollywood feels as triumphant as Prince Ali's magnifi…
YOU CAN’T TOP PIGS WITH PIGS After The Three Little Pigs‘ runaway success in 1933, Walt Disney attempted a few more shorts starring the little porkers, but they weren’t …
ACCOMPLISHED ACCOMPLICE Rupert Holmes’s Accomplice is the wittiest and most accomplished fooler play since Ira Levin’s Deathtrap. Each time you think you know what is unfol…
DETECTING LOVE A 15-year-old math whiz, Christopher is an only child with Asperger's Syndrome. The anomaly is enough to push adolescence way beyond awkward. His autism manifests in manic mul…