The Human Comedy
The ensemble. (Photo by Larry Sandez) Reviewed by G. Bruce SmithActors Co-opThrough Nov. 5 RECOMMENDED William Saroyan's book The Human Comedy started out as a screenplay, but when MGM dropp…
The ensemble. (Photo by Larry Sandez) Reviewed by G. Bruce SmithActors Co-opThrough Nov. 5 RECOMMENDED William Saroyan's book The Human Comedy started out as a screenplay, but when MGM dropp…
Martin Kildare, JoBeth Williams, and Peter Strauss (Photo by Jim Cox) Reviewed by F. Kathleen FoleyEl Portal TheatreThrough November 5 RECOMMENDED Watching Love Among the Ruins at the El Por…
J. Antonio Rodriguez and Company (Photo by T Charles Erickson) Reviewed by Julia StierAhmanson TheatreThrough October 15 RECOMMENDED Like Persephone in the spring, Hadestown has returned " t…
Spike Pulice and Chloe Reyes (Photo by Sej Gangula) Reviewed by Socks Whitmore Ophelia's JumpThrough Oct. 29 October has swept in the first tides of spooky season, and with it a...
Alejandra Flores and Gavin K. Lee (Photo by Grettel Cortes Photography) Reviewed by Martá½·n Hernández Los Angeles Theatre Center Through October 29 RECOMMENDED What happens when a Chi…
Tiffany Wolff and Alaska Jackson (Photo by Peggy McCartha) Reviewed by Julia Stier The Road Theatre Company Through November 5 RECOMMENDED After years of dating women, Faye (Tiffany Wolff) i…
Founders say they have no idea where they will go next as gentrification ends their long residency on an industrial estate There were thrills and spills, laughter and cheers but it was all t…
The People Have Spoken, Part 2 Ethnicity, and Audience Attitudes By Steven Leigh Morris Note: This is Part 2 in a series of articles analyzing data received in surveys from...
Anna Mintzer (photo by Berrie Tsang) Reviewed by F. Kathleen Foley Sierra Madre Playhouse Through Oct. 8 America's female suffrage movement dates back to 1848's first women's rights conventi…
Timothy Willard and Fox Carney Reviewed by Martá½·n Hernández The Group Rep Through October 15 In 1937, playwrights John Murray and Allen Boretz scored a Broadway hit with this comic t…
Gregory Littman, Matthew Tyler and Tina Preston Reviewed by Socks Whitmore Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Through Sep 24, 2023 Writer/director Sharon Yablon premieres a horror-comedy homag…
Nona Parker Johnson and Donté Ashon Green (Photo by Cooper Bates) Reviewed by Deborah Klugman Echo Theater Company at Atwater Village Theatre Through October RECOMMENDED How It's Gon' Be, p…
Daniel K. Isaac (Photo by Isaak Berliner) Reviewed by Taylor Kass Geffen Playhouse Through October 15 RECOMMENDED After his mother's suicide attempt, the unnamed protagonist (Daniel K. Isaac…
The People Have Spoken! (Well, Some People Have Spoken) By Steven Leigh Morris Absent data to help explain local theaters' current malaise " assuming the number of productions plummeting reg…
Mary Elisabeth Somers, Kathie Barnes, Liv Denevi (Photo by Garry Michael Kluger) Reviewed by Iris Mann Theatre West Through October 8 RECOMMENDED The heartbreaking, autobiographical story of…
Amy Brenneman and Anders Keith (Photo by Mike Palma)Â Reviewed by Terry Morgan Pasadena Playhouse Through October 1 After reviewing theater for 26 years, I have an opinion that I think of…
Les Kurkendaal-Barrett (Photo by Zev Rose Woolley) Reviewed by F. Kathleen Foley Davidson/Valentini Theatre at the Los Angeles LGBT Center's Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Cen…
Andriy Bondarenko Ghost Land Translated by John Freedman with Vladyslav Hetmanenko  The Butterfly Iura, a Ukrainian soldier (male, 20s " 40s) Iuliia, Iura's girlfriend/lover (female, 20s…
Nicholas Heard and Ensemble Photo by Jenny Graham Reviewed by Deborah Klugman Open Fist Theatre Company at Atwater Village Theatre Through October 22 RECOMMENDED Dominique Morisseau wrote Bl…
Sara Maraffino and Jonathan Slavin (Photo by Darren Rafel) Â Reviewed by Socks Whitmore Whitefire Theatre Through November 4Â RECOMMENDED A drug-fueled theatrical romp unlike any other…
Miles Cooper and Luka Oida (photo by  Katerina Kim Podell) Reviewed by Julyza Commodore The Beverly Hills Playhouse Thru October 1. RECOMMENDED At the center of David Schulner's An In…
Carlos Chavez, Chris Merlino (Photo by Rose Bochner) Reviewed by Amanda L. Andrei Chaotique Company Through September 16 Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus is a gross show. Roman imperialism, fo…