It’s not often that you get to see twin actresses playing twins on stage. My Sister, which opened at the Odyssey Theatre this weekend after an acclaimed run at the Hollywood Fringe Festival last year, stars Elizabeth and Emily Hinkler as Matilde and Magda, twin sisters living in Germany during the rise of Hitler. This … More Theater Review: My Sister at Odyssey Theatre
Before I head to New York on my annual theater pilgrimage, I made one last LA theater stop for 2015 and checked out the national tour of If/Then, currently playing at the Pantages Theatre. If/Then ran on Broadway for a year beginning in 2014, and four members of the original Broadway cast—Idina Menzel (Tony nominated for … More Theater Review: If/Then National Tour
When I arrived at opening weekend of Wood Boy Dog Fish, the world premiere production currently being presented by the Rogue Artists Ensemble at the Bootleg Theater, I was given a pair of 3D glasses along with my playbill. This was the first of many surprises in store during this highly visual, innovative take on … More Theater Review: Rogue Artists Ensemble’s Wood Boy Dog Fish
Near the end of Anton Chekhov’s classic play Uncle Vanya, Annie Baker’s adaptation of which made its west coast premiere this weekend at the Anateus Theater, one of the characters exasperatedly urges the others to “do something with your lives!” I have possibly never agreed with a character more—the eight other people in the dramatic comedy … More Theater Review: Antaeus Theater’s Uncle Vanya
Early on in Get. That. Snitch., a world premiere production currently playing at the Atwater Village Theatre, the narrator proclaims it is a story of “men, guns, and getting what you want.” The subtitle is “the world’s most dangerous play,” the producers offer complimentary earplugs, and there’s a warning posted about the loud sound effects and graphic content … More Theater Review: Great Minds Creative Productions’ Get. That. Snitch.
In LA, unauthorized musical adaptations of movies and TV shows have recently become almost as popular as juice cleanses. I’ve seen a few in the past couple months, and after really enjoying both the unauthorized Cruel Intentions musical and the unauthorized O.C. musical, getting tickets for The Unauthorized Musical Parody of Clueless, the latest offering … More Theater Review: The Unauthorized Musical Parody of Clueless
“In American Falls, a doctor can live next to a shoe salesman, and a shoe salesman can be an Indian.” This line from American Falls, which opened this weekend in its west coast premiere at the Atwater Village Theatre, helps set the scene of the small Idaho town where the story takes place. As far … More Theater Review: Echo Theater Company’s American Falls
When I walked into Hollywood’s Montalban Theatre last night for the one night only production of The Unauthorized O.C. Musical, I commented that I had never seen so many millennials in one place. While that word may have a lot of negative connotations, I didn’t mean it in a bad way—it was truly impressive to see … More Theater Review: The Unauthorized O.C. Musical
There are few better places to witness all the stereotypes Los Angeles has to offer than a Starbucks. Cafe Society, a new comedic play set in one of the ubiquitous coffee shops, examines our cultural obsession with technology and social media and how that is affected (or unaffected) by an actual real-life crisis. Produced by … More Theater Review: Cafe Society at Odyssey Theatre
I have been struggling to find a way to adequately describe Center Theatre Group’s production of Bent since seeing a preview performance nearly a week ago. I can’t remember ever leaving a theater feeling so utterly devastated and, essentially, at a loss for words. None of this is a bad thing—the production is extraordinary on every … More Theater Review: Bent at the Mark Taper Forum
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