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Theater Beat: 'Song of Extinction' at [Inside] the Ford
Elsewhere: 'Fata Morgana,' 'The Bourgeois Gentilhomme,' 'Cute With Chris: LIVE'

Broadway staging overwhelms 'Billy Elliot: The Musical'
"Billy Elliot: The Musical," the stage version of Stephen Daldry's heartwarming movie about an 11-year-... ...

Theater review: 'Joy Luck Club' at East West Players

Back Stage - L.A. Reviews

Review: A Man's A Man
Ron Sossi has squeezed the corn out of Bertolt Brecht's otherwise devastating script and turned it into jolts of thoughts and feelings.

Review: Pin-Up Girls Playwright-director Andrew Moore nails the language of those who inhabit a 1942 San Francisco burlesque-house dressing room. But the work suffers dizzying bumps and grinds.

Review: Rattlers
It doesn't take long to figure out that the title of Johnna Adams' short play refers not just to the deadly reptiles that figure so prominently in the story line but also to the characters.

Review: The School of Night
British playwright Peter Whelan attempts to harness his play to playwright Christopher Marlowe's dazzling falling star. He succeeds admirably — for a while.

Review: Silk Stockings
There are bright spots in Stuart Ross' handsomely staged rendition, but all in all, it's a lackluster affair.

Review: Song of Extinction
Playwright E.M. Lewis' world premiere evenhandedly focuses on the human psyche's ability to cope — from a single terminal illness to mass genocide

Orange County Weekly

STAGES Goes Out On a Culty, Snakey, Bloody Limb With Johnna Adams' 'Rattlers'

L.A. Weekly

Theater Reviews: Eat the Runt, Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Cute With Chris
Miss Witherspoon, The Bourgeois Gentilhomme and more

Los Angeles City Beat

Tilted
Los Angeles Theater Ensemble dreams an impossible dream

CURRENTLY PLAYING NOVEMBR 13, 2008
[capsule reviews]

San Francisco Examiner

D'Amore's theatrical conviction leads to `No Parole'

Contra Costa Times

Saving money: The best bargains in the arts world
We've got tips on how to find discounted tickets and cheaper performances in the Bay Area.

San Diego Union-Tribune

A humble new venue braves Greek classics
Even if you've got more than one good eye, The Theatre Inc.'s new space (now hosting the Cyclops as part of a Greek-classics double feature) is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it affair.

Seattle Times

Two big honors, and — "Boom" — playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb is on a roll

We're off to see another "Wizard"

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Seattle's newest company believes crisis begets good theater
Economy be damned. Seattle's newest company believes crisis begets good theater.

'boom' reflects Seattle Rep's need to adapt
Production of "boom" at Seattle Rep mirrors the theater's own need to look to the younger generation.