Mia Bonadonna

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!

Under the hyper-realistic direction of Ian Forester, Tape is a dichotomy of vigorously orchestrated theatre and always in-the-moment intuitive flux. Forester goes straight to the heart of Belber's play and thrusts the all of the thickened, anxiously unnameable emotion of the work out into the enveloping collective of misplaced audience and performers huddled together in a dimly defiled motel room.

This stage version of The Exorcist is not the all out evil vomitorium that the film is, but there are some interesting special effects to be had during the performance. Frightening loud and startling noises, bright flashes of bluish light, mid-air levitation, churchy-smelling incense, and a specially piped in demonic-stench that wafts through the theatre are all part of the experience.

Based on the lives of real people known to the playwright, Birds of a Feather is a perfectly constructed, nicely staged, entertaining play that stays true to its real-life roots through Hart's fearless embrace of uncertainty. Hart's script is full of earnest, endearing sincerity for all people regardless of social status.

As central character Gayly Gay, Terence Leclere conveys a perfectly discerning delicacy and empathic angst for the deconstructed Gayly. Leclere also has a this weird, but ultimately compelling Dan Aykroyd kind of vibe that we really dig.

Falling somewhere between Buck Rogers, Crimson Tide, and the Heaven's Gate cult, Earthbound is a unique and suspenseful doomsday premonition infused with philosophical after-life questioning all set to song by a talented and engaging cast.

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.

Guided by a lanky, paternal narrator who sits at the base of a whimsical family tree, the Family Forest cast-creators take their audience through several generations of their own understated and endearing family stories. Through fluid reflection, oral histories are actively molded into beautifully crafted and highly varied vignettes steeped in tangible theatrical sepia.

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.

The cast stylishly executes the pseudo radio show with an endearing local slant and perfect, engaged comedic timing that it utterly energizing. We think we'll be laughing at Dan Oster's performance as a texting, bad-ass cowboy for years to come.