Archive - Angeles Stage

A powerful 'Parade', a hapless 'Hamlet'

Theatricum re-opens, 'Reservoir,' 'Nice Girl,' 'Sorry,' 'The Wedding Singer,' and more

Jun 27 •

May 2025

Mad kings breed dismay, in DC and LA

Trump dumps on theaters. 'Lear Redux' in West LA. Pasadena's 'Doll's House Part 2.' Glendale's 'Glass Menagerie'. 'A Man of No Importance.' 'Life of…

May 29 •

April 2025

Penn plays: pop this 'Cork...', payne's lane

'Corktown '39,' 'Violin Maker,' "Furlough's Paradise,' 'You Are Cordially Invited...', How to Fail,' 'Secret Comedy of Women,' 3 plays at LATC

Apr 30 •

March 2025

Chills in 'Cabaret' X 2, fun in 'frou-frou'

'Blueberries,' 'Unreconciled,' 'Bacon,' 'Hamlet (Solus)' and more. Ron Sossi, R.I.P.

Mar 27 •

February 2025

Can LA theater match the drama in DC?

'Cambodian Rock Band,' "Fake It,' 'Four Women,' 'Noises Off,' 'Desperate Measures,' 'Macbeth,' 'Twelfth,' 'Sondheim's Old Friends', 'Harry Potter…

Feb 28 •

January 2025

Twisting through an LA house 'Listing'

Plus 'here comes the night,' 'Evanston Salt Costs Climbing,' four more plays

Jan 31 •

December 2024

The top tier of 2024. Martin Benson, R.I.P.

20 favorites from 2024, 'Once Upon a Mattress' and 'Emma,' 'Home Alone-ly Hearts Club Band,' 'Oy!,' 'Bob's Holiday Office Party'.

Dec 19, 2024 •

November 2024

Musical metamorphoses: 'Fiddler,' 'Pacific,' 'Cage,' 'Back to the Future'

Plus 'Waiting for Godot,' 'A Doll's House Part 2,' 'Antíkoni,' 'The Goddamn Couple...'

Nov 21, 2024 •

October 2024

Americans Akimbo

'American Idiot,' 'Kimberly Akimbo,' 'A Girl Grows Wings,' 'Heading Into Night,' two classics, notes on eight new plays

Oct 24, 2024 •

September 2024

Give me some 'Skin', A Noise Within.

'Civility' and 'TH IR DS'. Big-deal duels. A confusing 'Dragon.' 'Clarkston' and 'Kill'

Sep 20, 2024 •

August 2024

Comparing 'Company' and 'Clue'. Alfresco adventures in LA theaters.

'Keely and Du.' 'Dido.' Tom Jacobson's duo. Felder's 'Rachmaninoff and the Tsar'.

Aug 16, 2024 •

July 2024

Designs for 'Living', for a premie, for making old Hollywood more 'Chinese.'

Abe and Mary sing! Bye-bye 'Planet Earth.' 'The Outsider.' Putin's plans for playwrights.

Jul 12, 2024 •

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