Reviews
American Idiot
If you remember only one thing from my review of Green Day’s American Idiot playing now at the Ahmanson Theater, let it be this: see it. Seriously. The innovation of ...
Into The Woods at the Ahmanson
The opening night audience of Into the Woods was slow to be seated making curtain nearly twenty finger-drumming minutes late. Between that and the actors meandering out onto the stage, ...
Six-time Tony Award Winner Dear Evan Hansen Smashes Records at the Ahmanson
After a delayed curtain of close to twenty minutes, Evan Hansen (Ben Levi Ross) hit the stage wearing his now familiar arm-cast and the crowd went wild. Before so much as ...
Come From Away at the Ahmanson
To mask, to vaccinate, to distance, to mandate, to cancel—all topics of deep division in our country and beyond. In all this division, empathy is a rare commodity. The revival ...
A Play Is A Poem
Theatre Review These are fertile days for the Center Theatre Group, with crowds emerging from each of its three theatres bubbling over with the singular experience of sharing live theatre. ...
Ain’t Too Proud– The Life and Times of The Temptations
A Theatre Review by Keri Tombazian Director Des McAnuff has another hit on his hands – a heart-stopping, electrifying, spectacular telling of one of the greatest bands of any genre ...
Head of Passes at the Mark Taper Forum
At the intersection of faith and suffering lives Job of the Bible. There too, resides playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Shelah (Phylicia Rashad), the faithful matriarch of a fractured family living ...
Grey Gardens at the Ahmanson
Heads up Angelenos – Broadway has sent some of its finest actors to the Ahmanson stage to shine in Grey Gardens: the musical version of the critically acclaimed documentary of ...
Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3)
I had the pleasure of the company of my friend of twenty years, actor Bruce Ladd, opening night of Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) ...