Broadway runs away to the circus in this delightful musical adaptation of Sara Gruen’s bestselling novel, with gasp-inducing acrobatics and puppet magic to rival The Lion King. The songs, interestingly...
One of the conundrums of being a critic is how to review a terrific production of a play that you either have mixed opinions about or just don’t like. You can spend all the time praising performances...
IT in Shared Reality at Cosm Los Angeles: Pennywise Gets Bigger, but Does He Get Scarier? There are few horror images more immediately recognizable than Pennywise the sinister Dancing Clown emerging...
MUSE/IQUE TO CLOSE 2026 SEASON WITH AMERICAN SOUND TAKES FLIGHT: A MUSICAL JOURNEY FROM AARON COPLAND TO PAUL SIMON Featuring Grammy Award Winner Brandon Victor Dixon, Liv Redpath and the MUSE/IQUE Orchestra...
If having someone change the language, plot, themes, settings and characters of a play is seen as a tribute or homage or compliment, Shakespeare must be the most complimented playwright on the planet. He must be...
A new installment of the beloved schlocky Killer Tomatoes franchise is back with a fifth feature film, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence. Both gruesome and delicious, the madcap nonsense is...
Keith Glassman’s award-winning documentary Lives Beyond Motion, centered on leading male voices in contemporary dance, will receive a special free public screening in West Hollywood this Sunday, August 16. The...
I’ve been waiting for a play about the Russo-Ukrainian War, but, up until now, I hadn’t seen or heard of anything about that conflict produced in L.A. theatre. I mean, I haven’t really seen much about the...
It was a brassy night at the Bowl last Wednesday when Preservation Hall Jazz Band brought their signature jazz stylings to the stage, followed by the equally boisterous Tower of Power. It was a “New Orleans meets...
Every now and then someone will ask you to review a play that will be closed by the time the review posts. There are all sorts of reasons for that, some better than others. The best reason I’ve had yet to do so...
On the first of three sold-out evenings, composer Joe Hisaishi was welcomed to the Hollywood Bowl by an enthusiastic audience that reflected the remarkable reach of his music. Lifelong classical concertgoers sat...
Normally with a play title such as this, I’d remove the asterisks, but F**king Strangers is how it appears in the press release and on the program, so I’m assuming that the official title includes the asterisks. It...
‘Love letter to undocumented, Indigenous, and trans people’: Poet féi iká shumarí celebrates launch of new essay collection CHABÓCHI DOLL By Thomas Emick On Thursday, July 9, poet féi iká shumarí celebrated the...
When I first read about the premise of the musical Mexodus, which was the statement that there was a lesser-known Underground Railroad that freed four to ten thousand enslaved people by getting them to Mexico between...
Brian Sonia-Wallace
Terry Morgan
Pauline Adamek
Kurt Gardner