Review: Sara Porkalob shines in ‘Dragon Lady’ at Geffen Playhouse
Three generations of women are assembled in Sara Porkalob’s “Dragon Lady,” the first in her three-part series of musicals about what she refers to as…
Chamber music revives Doheny Mansion, Sierra Madre Playhouse
Summer is the season when chamber music, that most intimate of musical genres, meets the great outdoors. At America’s destination festivals, you can find chambers…
Danny Feldman has gone big and bold at Pasadena Playhouse
Danny Feldman, photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on Oct. 4. Danny Feldman is experimenting in real time with how to make…
Geffen Playhouse asks Helder Guimaraes to make magic again
Did the shattering year of 2020 actually happen? Did the country really shut down that eerie, silent spring? Did we stop going to plays, movies,…
‘Fat Ham’: A delicious spin on ‘Hamlet’ at Geffen Playhouse
“Fat Ham,” James Ijames’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, invites theatergoers to a backyard cookout in the American South. On the menu is William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” smothered…
How ‘One of the Good Ones’ made Pasadena Playhouse history
The pillows are fluffed, the cocktails are mixed, the enchiladas are warming in the oven. Ilana and Enrique Gomez have done everything to ready their…
Jane Levy, Alexandra Billings star in ‘POTUS’ at Geffen Playhouse
Farce, particularly of the bedroom variety, has traditionally leaned male. A prototypical situation involves a playboy type trying to keep two women apart on a…