theater reviews
Wilder’s classic Our Town gets 21st century treatment—Race, class, and all
August 3, 2021In 'The Last, Best Small Town', playwright John Guerra has adapted Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, resetting the turn-of-the-last-century Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire at turn-of-the-21st-century Fillmore, California.
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On the Topanga Trail of the Assassins: ‘Caesar’ on stage in L.A.
July 14, 2021After an extended intermission suffering under the twin tyrannies and plagues of Trumpism and COVID, the return of Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum marks a major milestone on our road back to fully living. For what is life...
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Fiddler on the sidewalks of New York: What became of Tevye
July 2, 2021The date is July 4, 1914, and the perennial hard-luck Tevye is out on the street with his ice cream cart as the crowds (Jews, Irish, Italians) gather for the parade to start.
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‘An Octoroon’: Intellectual rollercoaster ride of a play about race in America
June 22, 2021In that “the show must go on” spirit, live theater is returning to Los Angeles stages.
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New play ‘Ursula’ about children at the U.S. border to stream on demand
May 14, 2021“We are thrilled to partner with Cara Mía to present this beautiful, touching, and important new work,” says Latino Theater Company artistic director José Luis Valenzuela.
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