Review: MACBETH at A Noise Within
by Andrew Child - February 16, 2025
In approaching the play for a new production at A Noise Within, director Andi Chapman has grappled with these facets of the work and— aside from a few key missteps— has delivered a clever, if forgettable, production....
Review: TARANTINO | PULP ROCK at CineVita in Hollywood Park
by Melissa Heckscher - February 16, 2025
TARANTINO | PULP ROCK just opened at the brand-new CineVita venue at Hollywood Park in Los Angeles. The immersive concert/ musical theater experience will excite both Tarantino fans and Quentin newbies....
Review: BACON at Rogue Machine
by Amanda Callas - February 16, 2025
Bacon is the West Coast premiere of a simmering new drama at Rogue Machine on Melrose running through March 30th. Brawny, raw, savagely intimate, Bacon is a spare two-person play by Sophie Swithinbank that grabs us hard and never lets us go, even for a second....
Review: FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT at Mark Taper Forum
by Evan Henerson - February 13, 2025
With its gung-ho company of actors, clever construction, wicked cool set and general overall braininess, FAKE IT sails blithely along for 90 minutes, liberally trafficking in chuckles and cringes...FAKE IT’s physical and intellectual humor aren’t always completely in synch with each other, but the p...
Review: TICK TICK...BOOM! at Chance Theater
by Amanda Callas - February 11, 2025
TICK TICK...BOOM! is an inspiring hit musical at the award-winning Chance Theater in Anaheim through February 23rd. Set in New York City in 1990, this is a poignant love letter to Jonathan Larson, composer of the Broadway mega-hit musical Rent. Surprisingly for something that is grounded in real li...
Review: THE SEAGULL at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble
by Evan Henerson - February 07, 2025
For his production of THE SEAGULL at the Odyssey Theatre, Katzman deploys a mostly solid cast (two of whom are also producers), a talented technical team and a vision. The results are plenty engaging....
Review: THE BOOK OF MORMON at Broadway In Thousand Oaks
by Jonas Schwartz-Owen - February 07, 2025
The current tour of the hit musical The Book Of Mormon solidly preserves everything that makes the show an audience pleaser. A talented cast delights Ventura audiences at Broadway In Thousand Oaks....
Review: Segerstrom Center's Cabaret Series Welcomes Broadway Talents to the OC
by Michael Quintos - February 07, 2025
For two weekends in a row in January 2025, Segerstrom Center for the Arts presented some powerhouse talents from the world of Broadway to their enjoyable Cabaret Series. First up was the returning Jason Robert Brown, the Tony Award-winning composer of musicals such as PARADE and THE LAST FIVE YEARS ...
Review: EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING at Rogue Machine
by Amanda Callas - February 07, 2025
A smash hit at Rogue Machine already, many performances are already sold out. Evanston Salt Costs Climbing is a strange, satirical, darkly funny meditation on loss, anxiety, and depression. Among other things, it touches on our universal creeping feeling of dread, the vastness of the problems faci...