by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move Anywhere but hir… Playwright Taylor Mac's acclaimed dysfunctional family drama Hir making its Los Angeles premiere at the Odyssey Theatre is a bleak fandango of messy but deeply serious realities. A darkly humorous... Continue Reading →
Reviewed by Matt Ritchey “Christmastime, 1970: The King just spent 100 G’s on gifts, and he’s on the run from Graceland. High on Demerol, high on liquid Ritalin, and with the help of his dead twin brother Jesse, Elvis concocts... Continue Reading →
Reviewed by Matt Ritchey Christian Levatino’s Black Bag Pentalogy is a series of five dark comedies that “hold a magnifying glass to five very distinct moments in American history between 1954 and 1972.” The first three plays in the pentalogy... Continue Reading →
Reviewed by Guy Pico What moral compromises would you be prepared to make to create a better life for your family? This is the central question for a struggling British couple in Philip Ridley's timely and challenging play, Radiant Vermin,... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move He's a hilarious man with a sense of humor on the phone and an old school free-thinker, passionate about ideas and testing them to ‘whatever’ effect on live audiences for the pure thrill... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move Can anyone say, 'narcissist'? Six years after Jonathan massacred thirteen students, he is giving his first interview to Rachel, an up and coming journalist. Set as a prison visit, what is immediately striking... Continue Reading →
by Matt Ritchey Do yourself a favor and do not stop by this family's house for dinner. Grisly things await. The dark comedy drips from Feast, a re-mounting of Dylan Wallace's 2014 Fringe piece - a debauched dining room ditty... Continue Reading →
by Matt Ritchey Myrtle’s stopped moaning and now she’s MOVIN’! To Hollywood, that is! Maddie Patrick’s never-dropped, spot-on impression of Hogwarts’s favorite ghost is a delight in From Toilet To Tinseltown, a one-ghost show. Chronicling her expulsion from the Hogwarts... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move Extemporaneous and absolutely beautiful in all its savage bizarreness. This new staging of the one-act play, Cowboy Mouth, originally conceived, written and performed by Sam Shepard and Patti Smith as a theory on... Continue Reading →
by Matt Ritchey Jeremy Kehoe’s Movin’ On Up is an existential comedy about death. The fine performances of Jeffrey Wylie, Gary Rubenstein, and Tessie Barresi tell the story of two people who come upon 'The Watchman' in a graveyard and... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move A raucous, lightly interactive musical opening welcomes theater-goers before the comedic, and oh, so, (YES!), awesomely abbreviated version of the Scottish play whose name no one has a problem uttering in-house, over and... Continue Reading →
by Bob Rich In her humorous, thought-provoking one-woman show Balls’ON, at The Broadwater, Katt Balsan takes us on an international trip from France to America. Along the way, she performs an astonishing 25 different characters for us. During the amazing journey,... Continue Reading →
