theater
The ‘West Adams’ family: There goes the neighborhood!
February 4, 2020Skylight Theatre Company’s world premiere of Penelope Lowder’s West Adams is a great new play.
Read moreA marvel of inventiveness in two one-acts from Pacific Opera Project
January 29, 2020You wouldn’t have to be an opera lover to love Pacific Opera Project’s latest venture, a double bill of two 20th-century works.
Read moreA Sam Shepard double bill, a hilarious send-up of film conventions
January 28, 2020"This venerable mainstay of L.A.’s live stage scene is presenting the “Circa ’69” season, with revivals “of significant and adventurous plays."
Read more‘The Last Ship’ is a stunning masterpiece of working-class musical theatre
January 27, 2020Another self-conscious aspect of the musical genre that creeps in from time to time comes in some of the solos when singers default into crooning Broadway vocal production, particularly in the amorous, yearning songs.
Read more‘Nowhere on the Border,’ an engrossing play on our conscience
January 24, 2020A soul-wrenching, laser-beamed treatment of the emotional and economic issues around cross-border migration from Mexico into the U.S. Southwest.
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