Archive - Angeles Stage

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 •

June 2024

Two 100-proof spoofs. A dynamic 'Doubtfire'. Two music-man musicals.

'DurAntony,' the Montalbán, 'Reefer,' 'Strange Loop,' 'Jelly's Jam,' 'Spy...Rehab'

Jun 14, 2024 •

May 2024

A shocking shrinkage of stage reviews at LA Times. CTG's 'One'-size season.

'Body's Midnight,' 'Misalliance,' 'Hitler's Tasters,' 'Pang Spa,' LTC season, 'North Country,' 'Topsy Turvy'

May 24, 2024 •

April 2024

'Ham,' meet "Hedley.' Plus plays looking forward, plays looking back

'Dinner With Friends,' 'Kairos,' 'High Maintenance,' 'Could I Have This Dance?,' 'Funny Girl,' Theatre 40 rep, 'Stalin's'. Online LADCC awards.

Apr 17, 2024 •

March 2024

Should plays imitate TV? Bill Bushnell, R.I.P.

'One of the Good Ones,' a savory 'Stew,' 'The AllStore,'and the late LATC leader

Mar 22, 2024 •

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