***Updated as if 3:56pm*** This show has now canceled its encore performances. Reviewed by Matt Ritchey She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen is an amazing play. It tells a very real story of Agnes, a school teacher, trying to get... Continue Reading →
Reviewed by Matt Ritchey If you miss The West Wing and the classic 60’s Mel Brooks films, Holiday Kinnard’s Lincoln 2020 is for you. Tess Baker (Allie Leonard) feels responsible for Mallory Britton (Janet Chamberlain) losing the 2016 election to…... Continue Reading →
Reviewed by Deborah Klugman 3 Faces, the latest film by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, begins on a disturbing note, with a lengthy closeup, shot with a cell phone, of a distraught teenage girl Mariziyeh (Marizyeh Rezaei) pleading for help and... Continue Reading →
Winners! Killers! Producers! announced today, under the artistic direction of Michael A. Shepperd, its 2019 season of shows. This is the Celebration’s 37th season and the fourth in its home at the Lex Theatre, 6760 Lexington Ave. in Los Angeles.... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move She asked the gods for greatness. But the gods can be cruel. She became the seeress who told the truth, but was not to believed. On the morning she is to die, King... Continue Reading →
by Matt Ritchey The title isn’t fooling around – this production came to make some NOISE! A blend of hip-hop, spoken word, live beatboxing and singing, I Came To Make Noise is a Fringe Scholarship-winning production focusing on feminism and... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move The biggest 'huh?' about Denim Doves written by Adrienne Dawes and directed by Rosie Glen-Lambert, currently being presented by Sacred Fools Theater Company, is that in almost two hours with no intermission, and... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move The Pleasure Project is writer/performer Ava Bogle's irreverent, slightly interactive, one-woman show about five aliens preparing to leave earth in light of an impending nuclear war, trying to save humanity through the clitoris.... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move I was determined to sit ‘inside’ this performance. Bold enough, perhaps even intrusive enough, to take a seat in the front row on the stage in order to surround-sound myself by the emotional... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move Mary’s Medicine tells the true story of half Jamaican, half Scottish nurse Mary Seacole a pioneer of controversial holistic medicinal practices during Victorian England. So controversial that the famed Lady of the Lamp,... Continue Reading →
In celebration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th anniversary, Barnsdall Art Park Foundation and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, in association with Circle X Theatre Co, and J.U.S.T. Toys Production presents a highly topical play, Fefu And... Continue Reading →
A new video-performance remake "How to Undress In Front Of Your Husband", replicated from a 1960s ‘how to’ video, depicts the do’s and don’ts of female disrobing, while highlighting the absurdity of its creation in the first place.
