Conversation With a Kleagle
Kevin B. Ploth has directed the 100-minute piece with appropriate intensity, but his staging of a largish cast isn't helped by the unevenness of the acting company.
The Good Negro
There's almost a Shakespearean quality to Tracey Scott Wilson's The Good Negro, an examination of behind-the-scenes events during the civil rights movement in Alabama circa 1963.
Parade
Astoundingly, it has taken a decade for this compelling musical drama to receive a full L.A. staging, preceded only by Musical Theatre Guild's 2003 concert performance.
Body Parts
Ishmael means "God hears," and when Ishmael Reed speaks, God must listen very closely.
Tartuffe
Adapter and director Jeff Cohen has repositioned Molière's comedy about a 17th-century sleazebag and his patsy into early-Depression Manhattan, 1931 to be precise.
'Citizens' Arrest
The weird, wonderful creations of the Upright Citizens Brigade, the offbeat comedy troupe, blend the seemingly sophomoric with the fiercely intelligent.
Jerry Springer: The Opera (In Concert)
Jerry Springer: The Opera is very ambitious and very slight.
All the Wrong Reasons
t took me more than two-thirds of John Fugelsang's monologue All the Wrong Reasons to accept that I wasn't watching a one-man version of A Chorus Line.
'Jerry' Opera Springs Up Stateside
Jerry Springer — The Opera has been a sensation among British audiences since it played the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2002. But the farce is perhaps best-known for churning up drama...
First Time Around the Block
These days it seems the rule rather than the exception that determined actors will write, direct, produce, and headline their own projects. What sets Ash Christian apart from the crowd is the age at...
The Outing of Scott Eckern
Scott Eckern, who donated $1,000 to support Proposition 8, a referendum to ban same-sex marriage in California, resigned his position as artistic director at Sacramento's California Musical Theatre.