689 stories from Footlights
 THE PRODUCERS (3-D THEATRICALS): 100% " SWEET 3-D Theatricals presents Jeff Skowron and Jay Brian Winnick in "The Producers" at Plummer Auditorium and Redondo Beach Performing Arts Cente…
THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA (SOUTH COAST REP): 94% " SWEET Patti Cohenour and Erin Mackey in South Coast Repertory's production of "The Light in the Piazza." Photo: Ben Horak/SCR SWEET Despite s…
 BARE: THE MUSICAL (THEATRE OUT): 100% " SWEET The cast of "Bare: A Pop Opera" at Theatre Out. Photo: Stephen Rack. SWEET Such exposed intensity certainly elevated this production, and th…
THE DIFFERENT SHADES OF HUGH: 100% " SWEET Tom Musgrave, Coronado Romero and Zachary Mooren in "The Different Shades of Hugh" at the Road Theatre. Photo courtesy of the Road Theatre Company.…
 ON THE MONEY (VICTORY THEATRE): 100% " SWEET Maria Tomas, Vincent Guastaferro, David Fraioli and Jonathan Kells Phillips in "On The Money" at the Victory Theatre. Photo courtesy of Tim S…
 AN IDEAL HUSBAND (SIERRA MADRE PLAYHOUSE): 100% " SWEET Ann Noble and Michael Matthys in "An Ideal Husband" at the Sierra Madre Playhouse. Photo courtesy of Geoffrey Wade. SWEET It's alw…
PASSION PLAY (ODYSSEY/EVIDENCE ROOM): 88% " SWEET The cast of "Passion Play" an Odyssey Theatre & Evidence Room production. SWEET This is an epic play, filled with a good deal …
VERONICA BRADY By Graham Sibley Veronica Brady is relaxed. Â Or so it seems. Â "We found another great actor," Brady says as she falls into an tattered-old couch backstage at The Malibu …
Growing up in Philadelphia, Caryn Desai (lower case of her own choosing) knew she was an artist. Â Even in her early stages, Caryn remembers her family watching television while she was se…
Following a trend seen across the country, The LA Weekly recently downsized its space for theatre criticism. Economic factors were noted up as the cause, but I think there's more to it t…
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and Evidence Room present the Los Angeles premiere of "Passion Play" directed by Bart DeLorenzo Sarah Ruhl's lively excursion through centuries of religious pomp and…
Frenetic Angelenos, be ready to be lulled by the languid pacing of a turn-of-the-century Irish dinner party in Open Fist Theatre Company's production of James Joyce's "The Dead," with book b…
Three Theologians Are Trapped In Purgatory… WRITTEN BY: CAHWYGUY A little over a month ago, I saw an ad* for a show that sounded intriguing: putting Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and …
SWEET We never learn why these three are so tight to begin with, but who cares if they express their current thoughts and feelings through more than 30 of Porter's songs? Which they do, with…
SWEET This generic premise becomes far more intriguing after the artist stops taking his medication. Suddenly, phantoms of Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh (Tom Musgrave and Zachary Mooren,…
Brian Canup was more than just a large part of the Long Beach Playhouse, the face you would often see at the box office or on stage. He was this essential cog that challenged the term "theat…
Actor Jason Karasev shares his thoughts on the play MY NAME IS ASHER LEV at the Fountain Theatre, based on the best-selling novel by Chaim Potok. The Los Angeles Premiere at the Fountain The…
Based on the beloved play, Death Takes a Holiday is an enchanting new musical in which the loneliest of souls disguises himself as a handsome young prince and discovers the joys and heartbre…
The Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company Presents LEBENSRAUM by Israel Horovitz, directed by Don Williams with Michael Allen, Augustine Hargrave, and Andria Kozica at the Art o…
The Different Shades of Hugh Road on Magnolia 10747 Magnolia Blvd North Hollywood, California “THE DIFFERENT SHADES OF HUGH explores the very personal world of an artists creative proces…
West Coast Premiere of the third play in The Wexford Trilogy by renowned Irish playwright Billy Roche! Artie O'Leary is a lonely, middle-aged man who lives with his invalid mother and …
A WORD OR TWO: 95% " SWEET Christopher Plummer in "A Word or Two" at the Ahmanson Theatre. Photo: Craig Schwartz. SWEET For 90 glorious minutes, Plummer offers far more than a word or two. F…
THE DEAD (GREENWAY COURT): 100% " SWEET Open Fist Theater Company presents Rob Nagle, left, Martha Demson and the cast of "The Dead" at the Greenway Court Theatre. Photo: Eric Neil Guttierez…
BECKY'S NEW CAR (KENTWOOD PLAYERS): 100% " SWEET Cherry Norris in "Becky's New Car" at the Westchester Playhouse. Photo: Shari Barrett. – See more at: http://losangeles.bitter-lemons.c…
LET'S MISBEHAVE (ICT): 100% " SWEET SWEET There is a fine line between reality and a show, but the performers manage to convince you that they lived their lives drinking a whole lot, …
