top of page
Anthony Gutierrez
Dec 19, 20243 min read
Review: Troubadours’ ‘Home Alone-ly Hearts Club Band’ at Colony Theatre
Phillip McNiven, Matt Walker and Rick Batalla in the Troubies' "Home Alone-ly Hearts Club Band" at Colony Theatre (Photo by Ashley...
21 views0 comments
Anthony Gutierrez
Dec 11, 20242 min read
Review: ‘The Civil Twilight’ at Broadwater Theater
From left: Taylor Gilbert (Ann Carlson) and Andrew Elvis Miller (John Pine) in “The Civil Twilight” at the Broadwater Studio Theatre...
25 views0 comments
Anthony Gutierrez
Dec 3, 20244 min read
Review: ‘It’s All Your Fault, Tyler Price!’ at Hudson Theatre
Rarely do the words “important” and “entertaining” stand side by side when describing a staged production. In fact, it often seems that...
88 views0 comments
Anthony Gutierrez
Nov 21, 20242 min read
Review: Theatre West’s ‘The Goddamn Couple Down the Hall (Oh…. and Merry Christmas!)’
Playwright Mark Wilding notes in the program for Theatre West’s “The Goddamn Couple Down the Hall (Oh…. and Merry Christmas!)” that he...
70 views0 comments
Anita W. Harris
Nov 16, 20243 min read
Review: Aesthetically charming ‘Waiting for Godot’ at Geffen Playhouse
Irish playwright Samuel Beckett wrote “Waiting for Godot” in the winter of 1948, in French, having lived in Paris for 20 years and...
227 views0 comments
Anthony Gutierrez
Nov 11, 20243 min read
Review: ‘Back to the Future: The Musical’ at the Hollywood Pantages
Back to the Future (1985) is perhaps one of the most beloved films of all time. For this fact alone, expectations for “Back to the...
291 views0 comments
Anthony Gutierrez
Oct 29, 20242 min read
Review: The Group Rep’s ‘Four Top’ at Lonny Chapman Theatre
The Group Rep’s “Four Top,” an original new comedy by Michael B. Kaplan at the Lonny Chapman Theatre, opens with a one-night stand, or at...
123 views0 comments
Anthony Gutierrez
Oct 22, 20242 min read
Review: ‘Shipping’ at The Elysian
When the house lights dim for “Shipping” at The Elysian and a cloaked woman wanders the stage picking shellfish from the water, eating...
170 views0 comments
Anita W. Harris
Oct 21, 20242 min read
Singing and story shine in ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ at Hollywood Pantages
If you’re wondering whether the hype is real about “Kimberly Akimbo” – which won five Tony Awards following its 2022 Broadway run,...
19 views0 comments
Anthony Gutierrez
Oct 17, 20243 min read
Review: “Robbin, from the Hood” at Road Theatre Company
Road Theatre Company’s “Robbin, from the Hood” opens with an elderly Percy Woods (William L. Warren) browsing TV channels from his...
52 views0 comments
Anita W. Harris
Sep 11, 20244 min read
ANW’s zany ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ succeeds in breaking the rules
“The Skin of Our Teeth”—continuing through Sept. 29—is a weird play excellently executed by A Noise Within (ANW) with compelling acting...
49 views0 comments
Anita W. Harris
Sep 9, 20243 min read
Riveting ‘Memnon’ at Getty Villa evokes Greek tragedy with modern feel
The Classical Theatre of Harlem ’s (CTH) new “Memnon”—continuing at the Getty Villa ’s outdoor amphitheater through Sept. 28—ingeniously...
166 views0 comments
Anita W. Harris
Sep 2, 20243 min read
‘The Brothers Size’ at Geffen Playhouse blends myth with gritty reality
Though Geffen Playhouse’s new artistic director Tarell Alvin McCraney wrote “The Brothers Size” 20 years ago, the play resonates just as...
49 views0 comments
Anita W. Harris
Aug 15, 20244 min read
Gender-swapped ‘Company’ dazzles at the Pantages
The 2022 Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1971 “Company” soars at the Hollywood Pantages through Aug. 18....
14 views0 comments
Anita W. Harris
Jun 25, 20243 min read
‘A Strange Loop’ at the Ahmanson is strangely loopy
Following its Tony Award-winning success on Broadway in 2022, and a 2020 Pulitzer Prize for writer Michael R. Jackson, the musical “A...
28 views0 comments
Anita W. Harris
Jun 11, 20243 min read
Troubadours get no- no- notorious with ‘Duran DurAntony & Cleopatra’
The Troubadour Theater Company doesn't miss a beat with its latest music-meets-classic story mashup, “Duran DurAntony & Cleopatra,”...
103 views0 comments
Anita W. Harris
May 20, 20243 min read
Review: Melancholic beauty of ‘Girl from the North Country’ at the Pantages
It’s a dark Minnesota winter in 1934, during the Depression. Several souls shelter in a guesthouse around Thanksgiving, their deep...
38 views0 comments
Anita W. Harris
May 7, 20243 min read
Charmed magic of an American dream in ‘The Hope Theory’ at Geffen Playhouse
The world premiere of “The Hope Theory” – extended at Geffen Playhouse through July 14 – makes an American immigrant tale magical....
112 views0 comments
Anita W. Harris
Apr 30, 20243 min read
‘Stalin’s Master Class’ of cultural oppression at Odyssey Theatre
Though billed as a comedy, the Odyssey Theatre’s “Stalin’s Master Class” by David Pownall is more like a lively character portrait of...
87 views2 comments
Anita W. Harris
Apr 19, 20243 min read
Fountain Theatre’s verbatim ‘Fatherland’ portrays Jan. 6 from the inside
With an election coming up and possible presidential pardon for those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 – or a possible former...
69 views0 comments
LA Theatrix Theatre Reviews
bottom of page