Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
ASCENSION
Friday, October 8th, 2021D.G. Watson’s trippy Ascension may run a good fifteen minutes too long and leave an audience wondering what on earth this “immersive, interactive, sci-fi mystery thriller” was all about, but the Echo Theater Company World Premiere is nothing if not different, and a terrific showcase for its designers.
(read more)
HAVE A GOOD ONE
Sunday, October 3rd, 2021A trio of 20ish Midwesterners, two of them shirtless greeters at a trendy clothing chain called Penderleigh & Ashe, come of age circa Y2K in Stan Zimmerman and Christian McLaughlin’s Have A Good One, the crowd-pleasing latest from Pop-up Playhouse.
(read more)
CLUE
Monday, September 27th, 2021
McCoy Rigby Entertainment returns live and in person to La Mirada with Clue, eighty minutes of nonstop whodunit hilarity guaranteed to cure the pandemic blues.
(read more)
AS GOOD AS GOLD
Sunday, September 26th, 2021Theatre 40 opens its 2021-2022 season with Marilyn Anderson’s As Good As Gold, a Hollywood satire not nearly as good as the solid gold cast who do their darnedest to make it shine.
(read more)
OUR MAN IN SANTIAGO
Friday, September 24th, 2021
The CIA enlists the most improbable of assassins to rid Chile of its democratically elected president in Mark Wilding’s edge-of-your-seat hilarious Our Man In Santiago, an incisively directed, pitch-perfectly performed World Premiere from Theatre West.
(read more)
LIZASTRATA
Sunday, September 12th, 2021
Start spreading the news. The Troubadour Theater Company is back, live and in person at the Getty Villa, mashing up the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata with the Troubies’ trademark blend of zany jokes, inspired adlibs (impromptu or scripted, you be the judge), snappy dance moves, and “the music of Liza Minnelli” in the cleverly redubbed Lizastrata.
(read more)
JULIUS CAESAR
Monday, September 6th, 2021
Adeptly trimmed to a brisk eighty minutes by Theatricum Botanicum legend Ellen Geer and filled with as much action as it is with political intrigue, William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar adds up to classical theater as thrillingly staged as it is easily accessible to 21st Century audiences.
(read more)
CLOSELY RELATED KEYS
Sunday, August 29th, 2021A hotshot young corporate lawyer discovers she has an Iraqi half-sister from her father’s long ago extramarital relationship in Wendy Graf’s Closely Related Keys, an International City Theatre production every bit as topical as it was in its 2014 World Premiere, though ultimately not as effective as it was the first time round.
(read more)
Since 2007, Steven Stanley's StageSceneLA.com has spotlighted the best in Southern California theater via reviews, interviews, and its annual StageSceneLA Scenies.
COPYRIGHT 2026 STEVEN STANLEY :: DESIGN BY