~~~ California-based dance company Alonzo King LINES Ballet made a radiant and deeply resonant debut at Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, February 21, with their sensational program...
Category - Review
Pauline Adamek
A Noise Within presents “Richard III”
An ill-shaped wretch no sane person would want to gain power. A habitual liar who will say absolutely anything to get ahead. A monster who uses people to get what he wants and then immediately turns upon or discards...
Terry Morgan
Geffen Playhouse presents the World Premiere of “Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia”
Writing, at the best of times, is a tricky proposition. Some authors claim that they can’t stop writing, that it’s a function like breathing to them, whereas other scribes do everything in their power to delay...
“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” at La Mirada Theatre
Sweeney Todd is my favorite musical. I’ve seen it onstage several times, watched the film, enjoyed a cast recording (Cerveris/LuPone), and loved the Angela Lansbury/George Hearn version blessedly preserved on video...
“Lifeline” and “Brownstone” reviewed
When I first read about the subject of Robert Axelrod’s Lifeline, I thought it was going to be about the stress of working at a suicide hotline center and was expecting it to be a very depressing experience. Thankfully...