Mia Bonadonna

Alive Theatre's current production at MADhouse is the silly and deranged Entropy General. The tone of playwright Ryan McClary's hilarious script falls somewhere between M*A*S*H* and the late 1970s satire Soap with its off-color, often physical humor spliced with deep philosophical speculation about the meaning of...

LUCHA VaVOOM Luchadores. Photo courtesy of LUCHA VaVOOM. Cinco de Mayo commemorates a victory by the Mexican army at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. It is a minor holiday in Mexico, but in the United States, it has evolved into a celebration of Mexican pride and heritage. Regardless of ethnic origin, Cinco de Mayo is heartily embraced by Angelenos. Here are some of the interesting Cinco celebrations going on around town: Mexican Institute...

Callie Dunaway and Angel Correa in 'Mr. Marmalade' Photo by FreshFrameFoto.com Noah Haidle's absurdist comedy, Mr. Marmalade is currently playing at Garage Theatre. The little Long Beach theatre-that-could presents the tumultuous relationship between the sick and twisted four year old Lucy and her imaginary friend Mr. Marmalade, with added quirky flourishes and audience participation. Lucy and Mr. Marmalade play at house, tea party, domestic abuse fight, pretend 12-step games, and Barbie. While the Mr....

Erica Watson's funny and enlightening one-woman show, Fat Bitch, finishes out a short Los Angeles run at Greenway Court Theatre with one last show tonight at 5PM. Watson, most famous for her role in the film Precious, not only wrote and performs in this biopic show, but has taken on the directorial reigns as well.

Tom Jacobson's incalculably and exceptionally well written new play, House of the Rising Son, is playing at Atwater Village Theatre. This Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles production leaves no room for critical complaint through strong un-cliched performances, fluid direction, and an atmospheric set.

Jason Alexander in "Prisoner of Second Avenue." Photo by Michael Lamont Yet another production of the ironically bittersweet Prisoner of Second Avenue, is playing in Los Angeles. Neil Simon's play lets audiences peer into a middle class and middle aged New York couple's living room to witness the rapid decline of their mental stability after facing personal and economic tragedy. In a smart differentiating move, the latest addition to this Simon storm has high...

Famous for high production value and seductive charm, Cirque du Soleil's Quidam is currently playing at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center. The show follows Zoe, a young, unhappy girl that runs away to an imaginary town of eccentrics where all of the residents, coincidentally, just so happen to have circus skills.

Robert Beltran and Tom Fitzpatrick in 'Devil's Advocate. Photo by Ed Krieger. On the heels of Manuel Noriega's extradition to France to serve a seven year prison sentence, Latino Theater Company presents a theatrical account based on true events of his 1989 surrender to the United States in Devil's Advocate. The show features intense performances, calculated direction, and politically-charged script on a foreboding set. Robert Beltran leads the Devil's Advocate cast of two as...

Herbert Siguenza's crowd pleasing one-man biopic, A Weekend with Pablo Picasso, is currently playing at Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC) in conjunction with the Latino Theater Company. Both written and performed by Siguenza, this cheery show features a well rounded and researched script with stunning multi-media visuals that invites the audience to be Picasso's house guests in the South of France for a weekend in 1957.

Gabriel Liebeskind, Dee Amerio Sudik, Alex Smith, Jonathan CK Williams, and Daniel Getzoff in 'Wallowa: The Vanishing of Maude LeRay.' Photo by Matthew McCray. Son of Semele Ensemble's new collaboration project, Wallowa: The Vanishing of Maude LeRay, is an eerie and ominous dramatization of the real-life disappearance of a 76 year old woman in Oregon's bodingly dangerous Wallowa Mountains. Oliver Mayer's script tells LeRay's story through a constantly revolving spectrum of perspectives through action-oriented...

Chalk Repertory's latest unconventionally contextualized theatrical offering, Hell Money, is currently running at Agenda Loft. Ruth McKee's hilarious and touching script follows two nineteen year old veterans of the Los Angeles foster care system as they try to navigate through life with very limited means of social and financial support.

DaddyO Dies Well, Murray Mednick's fifth play from his "Gary Plays" series, is currently running at Electric Lodge in Venice. Drawing on references from previous Gary Plays, the production takes the audience through the pre-mortem hallucinations and memories of DaddyO, an old hipster patriarch, while simultaneously guiding Gary through a family ayahuasca rite of passage.