There Is A Happiness That Morning Is - Theatre Review
By Harrison Held. Mickle Maher's rhyming scholastic comedyThere Is A Happiness That Morning Is now playing at The Sacred Fools Theater is a very enjoyable production... The talented 3 member cast is...
View ArticleReborning - Theatre Review
By Jen BrownWe don't live in a perfect world or lead perfect lives. We live, we die and in between, for a good portion of the time, we yearn. In "Reborning", the writer (Zayd Dohrn) focuses on a...
View ArticleOut & About
Now that awards season has kicked off, I've been a busy journalist attending numerous celebrity events around Hollywood. I was happy to see that in addition to gifting celebrities luxury swag and...
View ArticleThe Groundlings Holiday Show - Review
Review by Bill Garry The six improvateurs who rule the stage at The Groundlings Holiday Show were so talented that when they came out at the end to take a bow, I had lost track of who was who. Tony...
View ArticleHellcab - Theatre Review
by Harrison HeldHell Cab is a very entertaining & enjoyable quick running one act 70 minute show currently at the Elephant Stages on Santa Monica Boulevard. The show is back by popular demand for...
View ArticleSerrano The Musical - Theatre Review
A review by Suzanne BirrellSerrano-The MusicalEntertainment at its finest. Laughter and craziness abound. It all happens in Little Italy. Rival families-Family strife. Dancing and carousing. Friends...
View ArticleJesus Christ Superstar - Theatre Review
Reviewed by Suzanne BirrellFrom the first chords back in the 1970's, Jesus Christ Superstar, penned by Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice, was a hit. And the current performance by the Doma Theatre Group...
View ArticlePulp Shakespeare (or Bard Fiction) - Theatre Review
A review by Harrison Held Pulp Shakespeare (or Bard Fiction)I really enjoyed this fast moving take on Quentin Tarantino's hit 90s film Pulp Fiction performed by an impressive & well trained cast at...
View ArticleDontrell, Who Kissed The Sea - Theatre Review
A review by Suzanne BirrellDontrell, Who Kissed the Sea written by Nathan Alan Davis is a masterful story presented in a style which embraces all cultures. The theme is universal - to connect with our...
View ArticleOut & About - Oscar Season!
Out & About by Harrison Held(Note from editor: Oscar season brings party and events where celebrities, nominees, and VIP's go to mingle and be seen. Roger Neal puts on one of the more famous name...
View ArticleAlternate Endings - Theatre Review
Theatre Review by Harrison Held I had the pleasure of recently seeing Skypilot Theatre Company's world premiere of Alternate Endings well written by senior playwright in residence, Jonathan Price....
View ArticleHollywood and Broadway - Theatre Review
Review by Bill Garry Octavio Carlin, playwright-director-designer, has mined his love for the early years of show business to create "Hollywood and Broadway," an old-fashioned drawing room farce that...
View Article7 Redneck Cheerleaders- Theatre Review
Review by Bill Garry Seven giant egos collide, conspire, and commiserate in a tenth anniversary staging of Louis Jacobs'"7 Redneck Cheerleaders" from the Elephant Theatre Company. This production,...
View ArticleHell Country, Florida
By Suzanne Birrell Photos by Chuck Jones (l-r) Chrissy Swinko, Rich Baker, Gillian Bellinger, Maya EstephanosIt's an hour of laughter at Second City with their New Show. If you've ever been to Florida,...
View ArticleCircles - Theatre Review
By Suzanne Birrell Lisa Harris and Blake Adams. Photo by Gina LongWe are immediately brought into the downward spiral of relationship in Circles, a new play by Lisa Harris and playing at the Bootleg...
View ArticleIf You Can Get to Buffalo - Theatre Review
A review by Suzanne Birrell(l-r) Chase Cargill, Betsy Moore, Caitlin Teeley & Alex Wells If You Can Get to Buffalo by Trish Harnetiaux is a fine morsel of eclectic humor. Fast moving and funny,...
View ArticleVerdigris - Theatre Review
Theatre Review by Harrison HeldJim Beaver (l.), Sheila Shaw, Adam Conger. Photo: Charlie MountLots of interesting and colorful characters in the play Verdigris which takes place in small town...
View ArticleOut & About - Grammy & Oscar's
By Susan Hornik Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel with Greenleaf owner Jon Rollo. "I play music and day and all night long!" quipped singer Ryan Cabrera at the Distinctive Assets Grammy Gifting...
View ArticleNewsies - Theatre Review
A Review by Suzanne Birrell. Original company, North American Tour of NEWSIES. ©Disney. Photo by Deen van Meer. (When they do this, the crowd goes wild!)Newsies stole our hearts when they opened the...
View ArticlePrison Boxing - Theatre Review
By Harrison Held. I recently attended a great new one woman show called Prison Boxing making it's world premiere at The Skylight Theatre Skylab on Vermont. It's a very good biographical show starring...
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