Review: CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND at East West Players
by Evan Henerson - March 02, 2025
Chay Yew’s production for East West Players - improbably the play’s L.A. premiere seven years after its debut at South Coast Repertory – is as raw and raucous as it is timely. Yee urges us to remember the past, be watchful of the future and enjoy the holy hell out of the process....
Review: THE CAMP at Aratani Theatre
by Andrew Child - February 23, 2025
With a superior level of artistry in terms of performance, composition, and design, the reality of the Japanese American concentration camps is relayed to contemporary audiences....
Review: UNCONDITIONAL, A MUSICAL MEMOIR at Skylight Theatre
by Amanda Callas - February 22, 2025
Unconditional, A Musical Memoir is a must-see new world premiere at Skylight Theatre in Los Feliz through March 9th. Unconditional is utterly heartbreaking, explosive with tenderness and the irresistible bittersweetness of memory....
Review: OLD FRIENDS at Ahmanson Theatre
by Evan Henerson - February 20, 2025
To watch these singers perform these numbers is to dream about entire revivals of Sondheim shows built around some of these actors, maybe even productions that have their genesis at the Ahmanson....
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....