Mia Bonadonna

Focusing on the fall and eventual heart-warming rise through life of Sacre's younger brother, the script works itself out like an autobiographically twisted family tree. While in many ways standing as a totem for all families born out of common, all-forgiving eccentricity, eccentricity, Sacre channels his brothers as seen through the eyes of their elders to tell a story that is full of circumspect authenticity, loving homage, and luck-filled cadences.

The pressure generated from making up a play on the spot is always redirected into a simmering, contagious warmth imbued with gravitas. The set for the production is simple, but does give the audience the sense that they are willing spies, and at times, voyeurs, into the lives of the central characters. What the production lack in over-rehearsed polish, it makes up for in raw, gritty authenticity that is absolutely enjoyable.

Through an authentically local voice, complex characters, and hearty nonlinear storytelling, Cedillo fuses crime and social drama to depict the intersection of morality, disenfranchisement, and depravity via three underdog best friends.

Ben Vereen is a masterful singer, actor, dancer; and in short, a legend own right. LAist spoke to Vereen about uniting the theatre community, empowering young creatives, inspiration, and about his upcoming show, Stepping Out with Ben Vereen at Santa Monica's Broad Stage.

You know that suffocating, mindless feeling you get when you are trapped in the slow-moving crowd of otherwise absorbed tourists, excessive pop culture, landscape pollution, and costumed characters at Hollywood and Highland? Yeah, that is exactly what it feel like to watch this rendering of Helen.

We were informed that the Page Museum's pet peeve is bad science. It was really cool to have a real paleontologist work as my dramaturg. We got the chance to actually meet paleontologists and hang out with them. They took us around the museum and we asked them a shit ton of questions. The scientists were really cool!

Summer has arrived, and we're ready to celebrate all that screams 'tis the season in Los Angeles. From sand to summit, from sips to snacks -- we love L.A. summers.

Premsrirat's play is a bit preachy and sometimes feels like an unfulfilled fairy tale, but his narrative ultimately reflects deserving stories that are rarely represented in any sort of art or media, that of Filipino culture and the struggles of transgender youth.

The cast of Goose and Tomtom gives a performance that is so immensely exhilarating and pleasurable to watch that the audience's story-processing brain parts start to explode from overexposure to sustained theatrical, philosophical, and comedic acuity.

The grim beginnings of Raskind's work twists unexpectedly into a platonic love-at-first-sight-story draped in a cutesy ghost-story. The plot probably would have benefited from darker, sadder writing, but it is easy to appreciate the bleak suicide facts that speckle the script and the playwright's decision to not pass judgment on the morality of suicide.

While shooting goals through a playing field of little green toy soldiers with the afternoon rush of his dad's auto parts store buzzing around him he discussed school, playing games, fame, fortune, business ethos, and happiness. Caine gave LAist a tour of all of his arcade games...sfter completing his homework, of course.

The script is quite dense and subtly genius which makes this brief description of McCray's play seem somehow inadequately descriptive, so try to image what a theatrical love-child of Tron and David Byrne's True Stories would be like and you will be well on your path to grasping Eternal Thou.