Skip to content

Recent Posts

  • Theatrical Secrets Revealed in Behind the Curtain at Two Roads Theatre
  • Theatricum Strikes Again with Quintessential Strife
  • Kufre N’Quay
  • Theatricum Botanicum Scores with Civil War Much Ado
  • A Rose Called Candace at LATC: Don’t Let Thorns Pin You Down!

Recent Comments

    Showmag.com
    Showmag.com
    Serving the Greater Los Angeles Area theater community since 1998

    Leigh Kennicott

    Theater
    Read More
    Photo courtesy of Sierra Madre Playhouse

    Our World Began by Harnessing Nature’s Forces in Flashes of Light

    Leigh Kennicott 8 June
    3 minutes

    In my small town growing up, there was a country road named for Nicola Tesla.  I suppose I’m one of a few who knows he was one of the most important […]

    Theater
    Read More
    Robbins, Combs. Photo by Gabe Tejeda.

    Drive Away with Becky’s New Car at Theatre 40

    Leigh Kennicott 29 May
    3 minutes

    Becky’s New Car, from the pen of prolific playwright, Steven Dietz, has as many twists and turns as a lonely mountain highway. And the main character, winsome Becky (Jenn Robbins), would […]

    Theater
    Read More
    Kasey Mahaffy and ensemble. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

    Attention Must Be Paid to a Man of No Importance

    Leigh Kennicott 20 May
    3 minutes

    It’s wonderful to find such an expert iteration of an exuberant musical right in our midst.  The joy of being an Angeleno, after all, is the ability to sample a wide […]

    Theater
    Read More
    Pregoni, Nagle, Mammana. Photo by Philip Pirolo

    Sicily in 1936: Between the Gilded Age and Mussolini

    Leigh Kennicott 18 May
    2 minutes

    I’m a big fan of Tom Jacobson’s playwriting because he always seems to find a way to illuminate current agonies with past events in a reassuring way, letting audiences know […]

    Theater
    Read More

    A Little Known Tennessee Williams Play Gets a New Assessment

    Leigh Kennicott 14 May
    3 minutes

    Tennessee Williams just couldn’t leave Blanche alone!  In his 1968 rendering In The Bar of a Tokyo Hotel Miriam (Susan Priver), the unhappy wife of an alcoholic painter, dawdles her life away […]

    Theater
    Read More
    Gillie, Rosser, Lawson, Hanson. Photo by Jermaine Alexander.

    Last Night at Mikell’s for Those of Us Who Missed the 50s

    Leigh Kennicott 30 April
    2 minutes

    The names James Baldwin, Miles Davis, and Maya Angelou loom large in our cultural memory, because they were among the vanguard of Black artists who began to thrive in the […]

    Previous 1 2 3 4 … 16 Next
    © 2020 All rights reserved. Theme Chained by AncientCoders