On December 4, we attended a read-through of Heathers the Musical, the controversial 2014 Off-Broadway cult classic about a powerful and ruthless high school clique during the 1980s. The show is a…
A Klingon Christmas Carol makes its West Coast premiere Thursday, December 14, so we wanted to wrap up our three-part series on the show by getting into the weeds and…
In the second of our three-part series on the West Coast premiere of A Klingon Christmas Carol, we talk with director Robert Reeves on the differences between the Dickensian Christmas Carol and its…
Trying to decide which version of Charles Dickens' short story A Christmas Carol to see this holiday season? Well one of the best is Leslie Bricusse's musical adaptation, which is being staged through…
Amid this year's rush of annual Christmas-based plays and musicals we find an unusual entry, A Klingon Christmas Carol, which is being staged by Lit Live at Santa Susana High School the…
Restaging Animal Crackers, one of the Marx Brothers' classic knockabout comedies of the 1920s, is a risky prospect at best. The unique mayhem of Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo is something that…
Take a Spanish cad, his lover, his vengeful ex-wife, an airhead fashion model, and a philosophical cab driver, and you have Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, a musical…
Last night I ventured into deepest, darkest North Hollywood to take in a one-man show about comedian Lenny Bruce (1925 - 1966) that is now on the third extension of…
A big part of theater is what is known as "improv," acting sessions that help prepare actors' reaction and thought process skills. Usually these are done behind the scenes, but…
In the era of Germany's Third Reich, there was no symphonic conductor more admired than Wilhelm Furtwängler. A virulent anti-Nazi, Furtwängler denounced the repressive government of Adolf Hitler at every opportunity,…