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COYOTE ON A FENCE at Arena Stage
Dany Margolies - Arts In LA Coyotes don’t play fetch and greet us at the door and guard us in our homes. Coyotes are the predator version of our snuggly pups. They are the canines with the need to...
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REBECCA’S GAMBLE at Theatrecraft Playhouse
Photo by Rick Walters Dany Margolies – Arts In LA Robert Begam and Art Shulman wrote this play as a courtroom drama. Their story could also pass for a gothic tale. Unfortunately, it totters between...
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HAMLET at the Odyssey Theatre
Photo by Enci Box Pauline Adamek – LA Weekly An all-female production of Hamlet — why?! The gender-bending (and multicultural) casting permits this motley cast of women to tackle...
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THE LONG WEEKEND at Torrance Theatre Company
Photo by Brad La Verne Dany Margolies - Arts In LA Max and Wynn have bought a beautiful house in the country. They’ve invited Roger and Abby for a weekend visit. The two women are best friends....
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THE PRODUCERS at the Norris Theatre for the Performing Arts
Photo by Ed Krieger Dany Margolies – Arts In LA The Norris Center for the Performing Arts wanted to be a producer of a great big Broadway smash. It found one: a splashy, slightly raunchy tuner. Yes,...
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HENRY VIII (Enrique VIII) at the Broad Stage
Dany Margolies – Arts In LA Photo by Ellie Kurttz It’s not the first play of Shakespeare’s canon to spring to mind, but Henry VIII was reportedly among the last he wrote (co-credited to John Fletcher)....
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THE END OF IT at the Matrix Theatre
Neal Weaver – LA Weekly Breaking up is hard to do, particularly if you’re embedded in a 20-year marriage. That’s the not terribly surprising message of Paul Coates’ play, illustrated by three couples:...
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WAIT UNTIL DARK at the Geffen Playhouse
Photo by Michael Lamont Dany Margolies - Arts In LA Suspense and suspension hallmark this sleek production. At the play’s climax, on opening night, no breathing could be heard among the audience...
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THE PAIN AND THE ITCH at the Zephyr Theatre
Terry Morgan – LAist Having seen a couple of plays written by Bruce Norris, (Clybourne Park and The Parallelogram) I’m beginning to detect a theme in his writing. He seems to find the purportedly...
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MATTHEW BOURNE’S SLEEPING BEAUTY at the Ahmanson Theatre
Dany Margolies – Arts In LA Photo by Simon Annand In the good old days, Sleeping Beauty was a ballet choreographed, in its first incarnation, by Marius Petipa. In it, we meet Princess Aurora, first in...
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FOXFINDER at the Pasadena Playhouse
Dany Margolies – Arts In LA Photo by Owen Carey Dawn King’s play is set in Britain, in the near future. As with all good literature, it’s meant to represent the here and now. So when an inspector...
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JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Photo by Neil Thomas Douglas Dany Margolies - Arts In LA Stagecraft and education combine here, as two performers from Scotland’s Visible Fictions theater company reenact the myth of the orphaned...
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BECKYS NEW CAR at the Westchester Playhouse
Dany Margolies – Arts In LA Photo by Shari Barrett The audience plays an active part in Becky’s New Car, and Becky is very much the hostess of this evening of theater. She greets us immediately,...
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, CHARLES DICKENS AND COUNT LEO...
Photo by Michael Lamont Deborah Klugman – ArtsBeatLA What do Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Leo Tolstoy have in common? In Scott Carter’s intellectually upscale comedy, all three are smug...
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FUNNY MONEY at the Torrance Theatre Company
Photo by Brad LaVerne Dany Margolies - Arts In LA For those who like protracted-lie farces, British playwright Ray Cooney is a master, and this one is a classic. In it, an average Joe weaves a...
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SE LLAMA CRISTINA at The Theatre @ Boston Court
Photo by Ed Krieger Dany Margolies – Arts In LA At its start, this Octavio Solis play is not easy to watch. The couple at its center is a mess: drugged, abused, irresponsible. The storytelling is...
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THE 39 STEPS at the Norris Center for the Performing Arts
Photo by Ed Krieger Dany Margolies - Arts In LA Let’s say the police are after you, but you’re innocent, and they’re actually not police but enemy spies, and your only means of escape is to jump out...
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PASSION PLAY at the Odyssey Theatre
Photo by Michael Gend Steven Leigh Morris – LA Weekly A quartet of Big Idea plays has opened over the past two weeks, exploring the intersections of art, psychology and history. Sarah Ruhl’s Passion...
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VILLON at the Odyssey Theatre
Photo by Miki Turner Dany Margolies - Arts In LA This play is more about storytelling than story. It is about the way we make theater and observe theater. It is about words and how they are enhanced...
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THE WHIPPING MAN at the Pico Playhouse
Dany Margolies - Arts In LA This Matthew Lopez play would have made a fascinating two-hander. But the playwright added a third character and ratcheted up the intrigue, conflict, and shaping, making...
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