Ionescapade: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

An anti-totalitarian absurdist comedy first staged in 1974 is revived at the Odyssey Theatre in West L.A.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 8:46pm on June 5, 2013☆⚑

Sleepless in Seattle: The Musical: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

The 1993 romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan is transformed into a musical at the Pasadena Playhouse.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 8:44pm on June 3, 2013☆⚑

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: The Musical: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

The 1994 movie turned Broadway play about a gender-bending Aussie road trip comes to the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:37pm on May 31, 2013☆⚑

The Scottsboro Boys: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

The final collaboration between the hit songwriting team behind "Cabaret" and "Chicago" comes to downtown L.A.'s Ahmanson Theatre.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:36pm on May 30, 2013☆⚑

Heart Song: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Stephen Sachs' new play in East Hollywood melds flamenco, Judaism and a daughter's grief.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 7:08pm on May 29, 2013☆⚑

Dying City: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

The Pulitzer Prize finalist about an Iraq War widow finally gets a premiere at L.A.'s Rogue Machine Theater.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 5:42pm on May 24, 2013☆⚑

Joe Turner's Come and Gone: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Phylicia Rashad directs one of the most heralded works from August Wilson's "Century Cycle" at the Mark Taper Forum in downtown L.A.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 4:30pm on May 9, 2013☆⚑

The Royale: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

A drama based on the career of the first black world heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson, turns the stage at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City into a ring.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 3:24pm on May 8, 2013☆⚑

Miss Julie: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Neil LaBute takes on August Strindberg's most accessible work at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 5:02pm on May 6, 2013☆⚑

The Parisian Woman: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

"House of Card's" Beau Willimon wrote this hypnotically engrossing Beltway comedy"world premiering in Costa Mesa--starring Dana Delaney.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 7:25pm on April 25, 2013☆⚑

Annapurna: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally play an estranged couple for both laughs and depth in this comedy at West LA's Odyssey theater. read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 7:04pm on April 25, 2013☆⚑

Femmes: A Tragedy: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Clare Boothe Luce's classic comedy of manners, "The Women," is reimagined in Silverlake within a contemporary lesbian milieu.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 6:52pm on April 16, 2013☆⚑

Slipping: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in Hollywood dramatizes gay high school love.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 6:02pm on April 16, 2013☆⚑

Our Class: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

An Atwater Village staging revisits the infamous 1941 Jedwabne pogrom of Jewish citizens by its Polish population.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 5:28pm on April 16, 2013☆⚑

American Buffalo: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

David Mamet's career-making classic is revived at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 7:22pm on April 11, 2013☆⚑

The Beaux' Stratagem: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Pasadena's A Noise Within premieres this reworking of a 1707 comedy of manners about a pair of English frauds.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 6:16pm on April 9, 2013☆⚑

Rank: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

The gritty tale of two Dublin taxi drivers premieres at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 2:03pm on March 26, 2013☆⚑

The Nether: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

A police procedural turns to the digital concerns of the future at Culver City's Kirk Douglas Theatre.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 6:42pm on March 25, 2013☆⚑

Eurydice: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Pasadena's A Noise Within takes on the Orpheus legend.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 5:59pm on March 25, 2013☆⚑

Camelia La Tejana: Only the Truth: Opera Review by Myron Meisel

Long Beach Opera wrestles with Mexico's bloody drug war.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 2:45pm on March 25, 2013☆⚑

On the Spectrum: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

In this edition of Ken LaZebnik's play, an autistic man and woman played by Dan Shaked and Virginia Newcomb discover each other and, in the process, themselves.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:16pm on March 22, 2013☆⚑

The Whale: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

A terminally obese man contemplates his mortality at South Coast Repertory.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 8:46pm on March 20, 2013☆⚑

Mad Forest: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

This drama explores Romanian political life around the fall of dictator Nicolae CeauÅŸescu.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 9:16pm on March 19, 2013☆⚑

Tomorrow: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

The fictional descendent of a famous acting family muses on aging and creative invention.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 9:10pm on March 19, 2013☆⚑

Catch Me If You Can: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

A musical interpretation of Steven Spielberg's 2002 film about a real-life teenage con man in the 1960s hits Hollywood's Pantages Theatre.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 9:30pm on March 13, 2013☆⚑