THE SECRET OF THE WINGS – Coeurage Theatre Company at the Historic Lankershim...
Paul Birchall – Stage Raw If your concept of a fairy tale is based on Disney’s saccharine stories in which the Little Mermaid easily finds love or Belle blissfully enjoys the company of the oddly...
View ArticleBLED FOR THE HOUSEHOLD TRUTH at Rogue Machine Theatre
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw Rogue Machine, one of the theatre companies in town I most admire, has been promoting its new show, Ruth Fowler’s bled for the household truth, as something important and...
View ArticleSOMETHING ROTTEN at the Ahmanson Theatre
Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen Just in time for the holidays, the rambunctious, crowd-pleasing national tour of Something Rotten! has opened at Center Theatre Group’s Ahmanson Theatre. This...
View ArticleBEAUTY AND THE BEAST at Casa 0101
Paul Birchall – Stage Raw If you want tangible proof of the benefits of diversity casting, go see this homespun, upbeat production of that perennial tuner by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice,...
View ArticleA STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at Boston Court Performing Arts Center
Terry Morgan – Talkin’ Broadway Often, when classic plays are “updated” or “reimagined,” the implication is that the work needed such treatment to remain relevant to a modern audience. In my...
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