Posts Tagged ‘critique’
Critique of the Week
PO BOY TANGO
by Steven Stanley – StageSceneLA
East meets West in Kenneth Lin’s Po Boy Tango, a culture-clash dramedy now getting its West Coast premiere at Little Tokyo’s East West Players. [...]
Critique of the Week
MADNESS IN VALENCIA
by Eve Meadows – Stagehappenings
Although Lope De Vega allegedly wrote over 1,500 plays, sailed with the Armada, ended his life as a priest, and lived at the same [...]
Critique of the Week
HALF OF PLENTY
by Joel Elkins – LA Theatre Review
Let’s see … Young couple, wacky neighbors, senile parent, absurd situations. Yep, all the ingredients for madcap comedy and Half of Plenty [...]
Critique of the Week
RANTOUL AND DIE
by David Ng – LA Times
A profane and violent odyssey through America’s white-trash psyche, “Rantoul and Die” is a strangely captivating comedy — a rude belch in the [...]
Critique of the Week – Runner Up
RANTOUL AND DIE
by Jay Reiner – Hollywood Reporter
Bottom Line: An original and devastatingly funny new play helped immensely by a superb cast.
A new play that surpasses its advance billing — [...]
Critique of the Week
THE IDEA MAN
by Steven Leigh Morris – LA Weekly
The unspecified manufacturing plant at the heart of Kevin King’s comedy-drama The Idea Man (which opened last week at Hollywood’s Elephant Theatre) [...]
Critique of the Week – Runner Up
THE AFTERMATH
by F. Kathleen Foley – LA Times
Theatrically speaking, Fiesta Hall in West Hollywood’s Plummer Park is an unforgiving space, more auditorium than theater, with spine-numbing folding chairs and glaring [...]
Critique of the Week
R.U.R.
by Steven Leigh Morris – LA Weekly
Czech playwright Karel Capek’s 1921 sci-fi horror show is about people’s desire to outsource drudge labor to robots, which are created (birthed in test [...]
