THE ULTIMATE DREAM The tumultuous relationship between legendary Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and muralist Diego Rivera has inspired many films, books, operas, and musicals.  El último …
YOU WANT THE TRUTH? SEE THIS ASTOUNDING PRODUCTION. Many are familiar with A Few Good Men, the 1992 courtroom drama film starring Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, and Demi Moore, which uses clash…
STITCHED WITH NEW MUSIC The hugely popular annual Halloween mash-up of film and opera at the Theatre at Ace Hotel is back. This time LA Opera has the Boris Karloff shocker Frankenstein on th…
Will Legislation Protect Gig Workers In Theater " Or Simply Restrict Opportunities For Minority Groups? When it comes to stage and cinema, productivity relies completely on gig workers. Howe…
Don't let this gripping production of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone come and go without seeing it yourself. This is classic American theater essential to our collective understa…
CAUGHT BY THE TALE The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare is kind of a weird play. It's a comedy because a pair of young lovers are united in the end but many awful things happen before th…
I'M SMILING ALREADY Hooray! IAMA Theatre is back with its 15th season, its first full season since COVID. One of L.A.'s best companies, IAMA opens with the world premiere of Smile, a new pla…
LOOKOUT FOR STEPPENWOLF'S NEW SERIES LookOut, Steppenwolf Theatre's performance series that presents the work of artists and companies across genre and form, presents the Winter 2023 seas…
A THREE-HOUR HOME RUN Clearly and cleanly, tried and true director Cynthia Ferrer and choreographer Alexis Carra Girbés trust the heart out of Adler and Ross's 1955 Broadway classic, Damn Y…
WHEN SHERLOCK ISN'T A SURE LOCK Arguably Arthur Conan Doyle's most successful Sherlock Holmes mystery The Hounds of the Baskervilles was actually first run as a serial from 1901-1902. It dre…
WHAT WILL YOU INHERIT? That Matthew Lopez's sprawling near-7-hour 2-part play, with 3 acts in each part, keeps us captivated is quite a feat. Beautifully written, funny, sad, and hopeful, Th…
PLANT YOURSELF AT SDMT Let's start with the fact that it's a show about a plant that craves human blood. Oh, and there's this nerdy botanist Seymour who raises him, whom the plant intimidate…
EVERYTHING'S OK Douglas McGrath presents as a nice, well-put together, middle-aged man. Onstage, McGrath wears a nice button-down collar shirt, stylish blazer with a matching kerchief in the…
AN EPIC JOURNEY TO HEAVEN AND HELL It is 1899 in Vienna, Christmas Eve to be exact, and two families, elegant and refined, are gathered together in what might be called joyous solemnity to c…
AUNTIE JACK MAME PANSEXUAL: relating to having, or open to sexual activity of many kinds. POLYAMOROUS: the practice of, or desire for, intimate relationships with more than one partner with …
WHAT'S BEEN DONE TO DEATH What cache Arthur Miller's 1949 classic Death of a Salesman has in terms of power and artistry, nuance, subtlety and insight, is buried by Miranda Cromwell's ineffe…
BOOM BOOM BOOM It's no wonder that Kristoffer Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in drama. The veneer is a hip-hop comic entertainment about the d…
THE COST OF MISSING THIS RAVISHING SHOW Every week in the opening sequence of the eighties television series Fame, dance instructor Lydia Grant would state without irony, "…fame costs and …
Everything in New York Goes BANG!Written and performed by Robert Galinsky One Night Only Debut Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 8 PM Hudson Mainstage Theatre, 6539 Santa Monica Blvd in Hollywood…
FOURGET ABOUT IT While her career may be skyrocketing as a TV writer, Christina Ham has not mastered the art of playwriting. I felt terrible thinking that after seeing the opening of her wor…
SEE THE LIGHT Illustrious lighting designer Jennifer Tipton will share an exhibit of light in Baryshnikov Arts Center's Jerome Robbins Theater for three performances only, November 17-19, 20…
WICKED GOOD A fantastic surprise from Open Fist Theatre Company awaits you at Atwater Theatre. A great story, funny stunning dialogue, and terrific performances arrive in a play " an actual …
CROSS-EXAMINING THE AFFIRMATIVE & NEGATIVE IN THIS DEBATE In 1965, at the Cambridge Union, Cambridge University, England, eminent social critic and author James Baldwin publicly debated …
DISCO BALL BOOGIE BLASTS INTO BURBANK Break out the bell-bottoms and platform shoes because Garry Marshall Theatre is gettin' down with the boogie with Cindy & The Disco Ball: The Musica…
ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, AT 7:30PM Queer Radio Hour is a live radio play that asks, "What would radio have been like in the 1930s and 1940s if they had let the…