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• Opera Review (NYC): Opera Manhattan's Women on the Verge

  Short operatic works showcase beautiful singing amid the nightmares of Valentine's Day.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Feb 11, 2012

• Theatre Review (LA): Finding Fossils by Ty DeMartino

  Finding Fossils is a powerful but simple play about a father/son relationship in the face of a family member's death and contrasting lifestyles.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Feb 07, 2012

• Theatre Review (LA): El Nogalar by Tanya Saracho at the Fountain Theatre

  This retelling of Chekov's The Cherry Orchard in the setting of the Mexican Drug Wars is a mixed bag.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Feb 07, 2012

• Theater Review (LA): Yours, Isabel

  Christy Hall's charming one-act about love in a time of war makes its American Premiere at Actors Co-op in Hollywood.

  Review by Kurt Gardner — on Feb 06, 2012

• Theater Review (Redmond, WA): Cavalia at Marymoor Park

  A truly spectacular live show, combining the equestrian and performing arts with thrilling results.

  Review by The Other Chad — on Feb 03, 2012

• Theater Review (NYC): Inadmissible by D. B. Gilles

  Who'd have thought a comedy about who'll be admitted to a graduate theater program could be so entertaining?

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Feb 03, 2012

• Theatre Review (LA): No Good Deed by Matt Pelfrey at Inside The Ford

  The Furious Theatre presents a live version of a graphic novel and succeeds magnificently.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jan 31, 2012

• Theatre Review (LA): What The Butler Saw by Joe Orton at the Odyssey Theatre

  Orton was out to point fingers at professional psychologists who loved to tell him how pathologically disturbed he was.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jan 31, 2012

• Theater Review (LA): The Dining Room by A. R. Gurney

  A.R. Gurney's 1981 play is revived in an adequate but forgettable production at the Promenade Playhouse.

  Review by Kurt Gardner — on Jan 31, 2012

• Theater Review (NYC): Where's My Money? by John Patrick Shanley

  Elements of horror punctuate a clamorous comedy of characters desperately searching for a place where they might feel like they belong.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Jan 30, 2012

• Theater Review (NYC): The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess Directed by Diane Paulus

  The classic 1935 George Gershwin opera returns to Broadway in a lavish new production.

  Review by malexandria — on Jan 30, 2012

• Theatre Review (LA): Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris at the Mark Taper Forum

  Pulitzer Prize winning Clybourne Park makes a stop at the Mark Taper Forum on its way back to New York.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jan 27, 2012

• Theatre Revew (LA): Hunger: In Bed With Roy Cohn by Joan Beber

  The McCarthyite lawyer gets a musical examination.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jan 26, 2012

• Theater Review (NYC): BOB: Blessed Be the Dysfunction that Binds

  This powerful one-woman show about life with a mentally disturbed brother deserves a larger venue than the tiny 78th Street Theatre Lab.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Jan 22, 2012

• Theatre Review (LA): Our Town directed by David Cromer at the Broad Stage

  The Broad Stage brings the much heralded production of Our Town directed by David Cromer to California.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jan 19, 2012

• Theatre Review (LA): I Love Lucy Live at the Greenway Court Theatre

  I Love Lucy Live recreates two episodes of the classic comedy before a live audience, complete with a seven-piece band.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jan 18, 2012

• Opera Review (NYC): Miranda

  Drawing on rock, tango, movie-thriller music, Baroque opera, hip-hop, and more, the score of this "steampunk murder mystery" is consistently engaging and exciting.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Jan 17, 2012

• Theatre Review (LA): Oswald

  The interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald is dramatized in a compelling production at the Write Act Repertory in Hollywood.

  Review by Kurt Gardner — on Jan 17, 2012

• LA's "Next Great Stage Star" Contest Heats Up the Winter

  The sixth annual competion began on January 8 at Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jan 15, 2012

• Cabaret Review (LA): Toonful from Bruce Kimmel at Sterling's Upstairs at Viltello's

  Bruce Kimmel presented songs from animated films at Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's.

  Review by Robert Machray — on Jan 14, 2012