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Review: NOISES OFF at the Geffen Playhouse
by Harker Jones - Feb 12, 2025

The classic show is revived to hysterical effect with excellent directing, staging and acting

Photos: Backstage at TOPDOG/UNDERDOG at Pasadena Playhouse
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 12, 2025

Pasadena Playhouse is offering a first look of its upcoming production of Topdog/Underdog, currently in rehearsal. These photos were taken on the roof of the Playhouse. Check out photos of the cast here!

Photos: NOISES OFF Now Playing at Geffen Playhouse�¿
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 5, 2025

Noises Off is now being presented at Geffen Playhouse. Doors slam, sardines fly, and trousers drop in Michael Frayn’s side-splitting British farce. Get a first look at photos of the production now! 

Review: WAITING FOR GODOT at Geffen Playhouse
by Evan Henerson - Nov 20, 2024

As embodied by Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi in the revival of GODOT at the Geffen Playhouse, Vladimir and Estragon are a formidable pair. Beckett’s play about the unknowable darkness of the human condition has - go figure! - long been catnip for comedians, and you get why Wilson and Mandvi would want a whack at them.

Photos: Meet the Cast of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES At Pasadena Playhouse
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 13, 2024

Pasadena Playhouse brings the world of its upcoming production  La Cage aux Folles to life in the backstage areas of its historic theater, which is celebrating its 100th year in 2025. Get a look backstage in new photos of stars Cheyenne Jackson, Kein Cahoon, Ryan J. Haddad, and more in costume below!

Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Antaeus Theatre Company
by Harker Jones - Oct 24, 2024

The Antaeus Theatre Company pulls off another triumph with the enchanting and handsomely mounted Oscar Wilde classic.

Review: AMERICAN IDIOT at Mark Taper Forum
by Evan Henerson - Oct 17, 2024

With a packed Taper house, a stage full of hot young singer/dancers performing, signing and middle fingering their hopes and disillusionments into an iconic rock score; yeah life doesn’t suck too much. Neither does this production, although ironically, here’s wishing that that the experience could have been even more roof-raising,

Photos: AMERICAN IDIOT Starring Daniel Durant, Milo Manheim & More at Mark Taper Forum
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 7, 2024

Green Day's American Idiot, produced by Center Theatre Group in collaboration with Deaf West Theatre opens this month. Get a first look at photos here of the show featuring music of Green Day and the lyrics of lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong in a new production that features an ensemble of both Deaf and hearing actors, and is performed simultaneously in American Sign Language and spoken English.

Review: A GOOD GUY at Rogue Machine At The Matrix Theatre
by Evan Henerson - Oct 4, 2024

Read BroadwayWorld's review of A Good Guy at Rogue Machine at The Matrix Theatre. Learn more about the production!

Review: CYRANO DE BERGERAC at Pasadena Playhouse
by Evan Henerson - Sep 21, 2024

Martin Crimp’s free adaptation – first staged in 2019 with James McAvoy in the title role -  is as urgent and beguiling as it is contemporary, a classic with a fiery heart and not an inch of dustiness or quaintness. In the revival directed by Mike Donahue at the Pasadena Playhouse, CYRANO bursts with energy and excitement.

23rd Annual San Diego International Film Festival Reveals 2024 Slate
by Josh Sharpe - Sep 18, 2024

The 23rd Annual San Diego International Film Festival is ‘Celebrating the Power of Film’ with curated screenings that inform, inspire and entertain. The Opening Night film premiere and party will be held at The Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park on Wednesday, October 16th.

Review: DRAGON LADY at Geffen Playhouse
by Evan Henerson - Sep 18, 2024

In its L.A. premiere at the Geffen Playhouse directed by Andrew Russell, DRAGON LADY is every inch an homage to Maria Sr., who died in 2022, but also to resilience. Watching Porkalob crawl inside the skins these two little boys who are playing the part of super heroes ... is to take a wicked cool journey, the kind that only happens in live theater.

Interview: Ben Edlin And Deborah Aquila on TH IR DS at Zephyr Theatre
by Shari Barrett - Sep 18, 2024

Given the divisive political climate in our country right now, when I heard about the new play TH IR DS being presented at the Zephyr Theatre, I decided to speak with Co-Story Creator/Playwright/Actor Ben Edlin and Co-Story Creator and Multi-award-winning Casting Director Deborah Aquila about the creation of such a timely piece of theatre.

Review: TH IR DS at Zephyr Theatre
by Amanda Callas - Sep 11, 2024

TH IR DS is the world premiere of a new dystopian drama, a messy play with a lot of interesting things on its mind. 

Photos: Sara Porkalob Performs DRAGON LADY at Geffen Playhouse
by Stephi Wild - Sep 9, 2024

Production photos have been released for Dragon Lady at Geffen Playhouse, written and performed by Sara Porkalob. Check out the photos here!

Review: THE BROTHERS SIZE at Geffen Playhouse
by Evan Henerson - Aug 28, 2024

THE BROTHERS SIZE, a heart-rending, music-suffused three-hander exploring the strength and limits of fraternal bonds, is being staged in the Geffen’s smaller Audrey Skirball Kenis Theatre, where it fits beautifully.

Review: HUMAN ERROR at Rogue Machine At The Matrix Theatre
by Amanda Callas - Aug 23, 2024

In the sublime tradition of the madcap screwball comedies of the 1930s and the great farces of the stage by writers like Molière and Aristophanes, Human Error has dazzling, brilliant writing. 

Review: PSYCHO BEACH PARTY at Matrix Theatre
by Amanda Callas - Jun 28, 2024

Psycho Beach Party is a classic summer comedy at the Matrix Theatre on Melrose through July 7th.  It is glorious, glorious fun, campy, frisky, outrageous, and hilarious from start to finish.

Review: JELLY'S LAST JAM at Pasadena Playhouse
by Evan Henerson - Jun 14, 2024

Director Kent Gash’s production in Pasadena serves up equal parts heat and cool, a slick and sweaty celebration of a man who was as vibrant and dangerous as his music. Under the musical direction of Darryl Archibald and choreography of Dell Howlett – both of which are first-rate – the evening cooks.

JELLY'S LAST JAM Enters Final Two Weeks of Performances at Pasadena Playhouse
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 13, 2024

Pasadena Playhouse's production of the Tony Award-winning musical JELLY'S LAST JAM, directed by Kent Gash will close this month. Learn how to purchase tickets.