Posts Tagged ‘Loft Ensemble’
MRS. DILBER’S CHRISTMAS CAROL
Sunday, December 8th, 2024It’s a clever, promising premise, and were it given less over-the-top treatment, Arthur M. Jolly’s Mrs. Dilber’s Christmas Carol just might be a winner, but excessively broad performances squander much of the good cheer Jolly’s script might otherwise inspire. (It would help too if you could understand more than half of what the actors are saying.)
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LA COCINA
Saturday, January 20th, 2024
The high-stress, high-intensity back-of-house goings-on at a classy New York City eatery come excitingly to life in Tony Menéses’s La Cocina, the latest from North Hollywood’s Loft Ensemble, and a particular treat for fans of Hulu’s The Bear.
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MUD
Monday, August 22nd, 2022Loft Ensemble imagines a dystopian future populated by ten nameless, genderless global calamity survivors in Mud, a World Premiere drama I found alternately pretentious and preachy
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THE CALORIE COUNTERS
Saturday, October 23rd, 2021Excess pounds may be no laughing matter, but playwright Molly Wagner finds equal parts comedy and drama in a 20something’s efforts to shed them in The Calorie Counters, a crowd-pleasing Loft Ensemble World Premiere.
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