8.8 out of 10 - A GREAT SHOW! March 3-24, 2019 www.latheatrebites.com Rosalind Franklin was a British pioneer in science in the early 1950s, yet her groundbreaking role in the discovery of DNA’s double helix structure is still often overlooked. Based on a true story, Photograph 51 presents an intriguing portrait of a complex, courageous woman making her way in a male-dominated field. While rival teams of researchers compete for a breakthrough, Rosalind, focused and unbending, is locked in a race...
Mar 16, 2019•3 min
8.6 out of 10 - A GREAT SHOW! FEB 23RD – APRIL 14TH,2019 www.latheatrebites.com A diverse hip-hop trio is on the verge of making it big on national TV when a police shooting of a Black teen shakes the band to its core, forcing them to confront questions of race, gender, privilege, appropriation, and when to use artistic expression as an act of social protest.
Mar 12, 2019•3 min
7.9 out of 10 - Above Average! Feb 10 - April 28,2019 www.latheatrebites.com The Bard’s most intimate of family tragedies about the terrible force of love and the breakdown of a man who has everything—power, position, and passion—only to find his world decimated through intense mind games with his ensign. Prescient in its searing social commentary of prejudice, betrayal, and thwarted ambition, Shakespeare’s thunderous drama examines who we trust and the price we pay for choosing wrong.
Mar 09, 2019•6 min
8.2 out of 10 - A GOOD SHOW!!! www.latheatrebites.com February 24 - April 26, 2019 An innocuous visit from a potential suitor unsettles the sheltered Wingfield family. Matriarch Amanda fiercely protects her adult children from the harshness of others, but doesn’t realize that her own eccentricities are the biggest threat to their psychological survival.
Mar 04, 2019•3 min
8.6 out of 10 - A GREAT SHOW! Feb 21 – Mar 17, 2019 www.latheatrebites.com A delightfully funny comedy about three Jewish widows who meet routinely to commiserate about their late husbands’ attributes and shortcomings over tea. With playful zingers and one-line gags.
Mar 04, 2019•2 min
7.9 out of 10 - Above Average! www.latheatrebites.com Take a trip with Denny and the Dreamers, a fledgling doo-wop singing group preparing to enter the Big Whopper Radio contest to realize their dreams of making it to the big time!
Mar 02, 2019•4 min
Interview with Director of Cultural Programming Jonathan Muñoz-Proulx, Artistic Director of Celebration Theatre Michael Shepard, Artistic Director of the Trans Chorus of LA Abdullah Hall about the new NOISE NOW Initiative at A NOISE WITH IN. http://www.anoisewithin.org/noise-now/
Mar 01, 2019•33 min
8.8 out of 10 - A GREAT SHOW! February 15 - March 3, 2019 www.latheatrebites.com A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder centers on Monty Navarro, a lowborn young Englishman and distant heir to a family fortune, who sets out to elevate his social standing by speeding up the line of succession.
Feb 27, 2019•5 min
10 out of 10 - A Masterpiece! February 5 — March 9,2019 www.latheatrebites.com Ragtime tells the story of three families at the turn of the 20th Century in pursuit of the American dream.
Feb 26, 2019•6 min
7.5 out of 10 - Above Average! www.latheatrebites.com In pursuit of the American Dream, six pregnant Filipina women risk everything. Confined to a one-bedroom, one-bath unit in Hollywood the women do their best to overcome fears of jail and deportation so that their children can have a better life. Playwright Boni B. Alvarez examines the promise of U.S. Citizenship and ask, “How far would you go to give your child a future?”
Feb 23, 2019•5 min
9 out of 10 - An Exceptional Show! February 5 - March 24, 2019 www.latheatrebites.com Tony and Olivier Award-nominee Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor imagine Nat "King" Cole as he faces the final Christmastime broadcast of his groundbreaking variety show and weighs the advice of his friend Sammy Davis Jr. to "go out with a bang."
Feb 22, 2019•3 min
Interview with actors Michael Manuel (Iago) and Tania Verafield (Emilia) about their new production at A Noise Within Shakespeare's Othello. Feb 10 - April 28, 2019 The Bard’s most intimate of family tragedies about the terrible force of love and the breakdown of a man who has everything—power, position, and passion—only to find his world decimated through intense mind games with his ensign. Prescient in its searing social commentary of prejudice, betrayal, and thwarted ambition, Shakespeare’s t...
Feb 20, 2019•39 min
9.3 out of 10 - An Exceptional Show! Feb 8 - March 17,2019 www.latheatrebites.com Helen Edmudson’s Anna Karenina is an upside-down telling of Leo Tolstoy’s classic tale. A story wrapped in temptation, passion, and moral conflict, this eight-person dramatic event is a fast-paced examination of love, adultery, and marriage.
Feb 18, 2019•3 min
8.4 out of 10 - A Very Good Show!!! www.latheatrebites.com Punk-rock opera that explores the bloody legend of America’s favorite axe-wielding sweetheart-diva-heroine-enigma-psychopath, Lizzie Borden. Accused of brutally killing her father and stepmother in 1892, Lizzie was eventually acquitted by a jury of her peers, leaving the horrific crime unsolved. What really happened on the fateful night of the dual killings?
Feb 18, 2019•3 min
8.4 out of 10 - A Very Good Show! February 8th – March 16th, 2019 www.latheatrebites.com The year is 1933. Our story begins with a talented but as yet untrusted film director who is rapidly preparing to set sail with a hired crew. Why is he going? To shoot a film of course. Where is he going? He’s not telling. Without a care for the irritations and suspicions that this secrecy arouses, he finds himself a down-on-her-luck actress willing to accompany him on his mad voyage to film the greatest bea...
Feb 18, 2019•3 min
(warning podcast has some bad language) www.latheatrebites.com Interview with Playwright Phil Keeling about his latest play Suprema @ STAGEStheatre. March 9th – March 30th, 2019 It’s 1940, and celebrated psychologist William Moulton Marston has decided that he wants to create a comic book heroine who stands for valor and love in a world dominated by men and war. Over the course of a single evening, Marston, his wife Elizabeth, and their lover Olive must convince DC Comics executive Max Gaines of...
Feb 15, 2019•49 min
8.9 out of 10 - A GREAT SHOW! www.latheatrebites.com Feb 4 - 23, 2019 Devastated when his New York City church kicks him out for being gay, Griffin escapes across the world to volunteer in a small village. His "good intentions" are tested against the backdrop of an incurable epidemic, corruption and a dangerous abduction that leaves him questioning everything he has ever known.
Feb 12, 2019•4 min
9.2 out of 10 - An Exceptional Show! www.latheatrebites.com A hidden discovery in a hotel bathroom changes the lives of four Korean American Christian girls on a mission trip to Thailand. Samantha is hurt that someone she trusted could betray her. Jen is worried about how this might affect her college applications. Kyung-Hwa thinks everyone should adjust their expectations. Mimi’s out for blood. Amid the neon lights and go-go bars in Bangkok, the girls plot revenge in this funny, feminist thrill...
Feb 08, 2019•3 min
8.2 out of 10 - A GOOD SHOW! www.latheatrebites.com Feb 5- 17, 2019 COME FROM AWAY tells the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them. Cultures clashed, and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into trust, music soared into the night, and gratitude grew into enduring friendships.
Feb 08, 2019•3 min
9 out of 10 - An Exceptional Show! www.latheatrebites.com Jan 17- March 11, 2019. Dreams are in short supply on Inishmaan, especially for Billy Claven. So when a Hollywood filmmaker arrives on the neighboring island to make a movie, Billy goes after a part in the film, hoping to escape from the cruelty and bleakness of his life in master storyteller Martin McDonagh’s darkly comic Irish yarn.
Jan 28, 2019•4 min
8.5 out of 10 - A GREAT SHOW! www.latheatrebites.com JAN 17 – FEB 7, 2019 GRAY PEOPLE tells a story of constantly shifting trust and loyalties as James, Jenny and Adam tensely await a late-night delivery in the woods...unsure what to believe about each other, and increasingly uncertain of their fate.
Jan 25, 2019•3 min
7.2 out of 10 - Average Show! Jan 18 – Feb 23, 2019 www.latheatrebites.com The Vaughn family’s go-to defense mechanism of sarcasm and mordant humor falls short when the aging parents hatch a not-so-funny way to avoid the retirement home.
Jan 24, 2019•2 min
7.8 out of 10 - Above Average! January 11-27, 2019 www.latheatrebites.com The Long Weekend is a play about two couples spending a long weekend together in the country. We discover the two friends’ spouses are having affairs, and the audience witnesses what happens to the characters due to their choices.
Jan 22, 2019•2 min
7.3 out 10 - An Average show! www.latheatrebites.com January 18th - February 10, 2019. Murder on the Nile is set on a river cruise in Egypt. Nine characters get on the boat with different reasons for being there and bring their personal dramas aboard the ship. When the drama unfolds someone is murdered, and the character Canon Pennefather, a priest played by Lawrence Ingalls, investigates before the cops arrive.
Jan 22, 2019•3 min
8.8 out of 10 - A GREAT SHOW!!! www.latheatrebites.com Jan 11 – Feb 3, 2019 1776, the electrifying musical about the founding of America. Featuring a contemporary cast, this Tony Award-winning smash begins with a deadlocked Congress – sound familiar? Its attempts to adopt the Declaration of Independence are boiling over in heated confrontations.
Jan 13, 2019•4 min
7.9 out of 10 - Above Average. www.latheatrebites.com
Jan 09, 2019•2 min
9 out of 10 - An Exceptional Show! www.latheatrebites.com January 5-20,2019 Estranged brothers Frank and Jesse reunite to plan a kidnapping in a squalid motel room on a hellish day in Barstow. When day turns into night and their hostage is brought out of the trunk, the siblings find their troubles have just begun.
Jan 07, 2019•4 min
End of the year 2019 podcast with Los Angeles playwrights and directors. As we talk about the theatre scene in 2018. www.latheatrebites.com Paul Rush is a founder of the Sixty-six Theater Co, located at the historic Marilyn Monroe Theatre in West Hollywood. He fell in love with theater while studying at the University of Maine. His disciplined and heartfelt approach he attributes to his time in the woods of Maine and in his service in the U.S. Air Force. He is dedicated to engaging audiences wit...
Jan 01, 2019•1 hr 28 min
8 out of 10 - A Good Show!! www.latheatrebites.com Nov 17 – Dec 15,2018 The spooky adventures of Hansel and Gretel comes to the operatic stage with 12-foot-tall creatures, fantastical sets and elaborate special effects. Diva extraordinaire Susan Graham stars as the uproariously wicked witch, eager to lure her young victims into a delicious trap, but last-minute ingenuity saves the day and the plucky children emerge triumphant in the heartfelt conclusion.
Dec 08, 2018•3 min
6.8 out of 10 - Okay. www.latheatrebites.com In 1978, People's Temple, a progressive, Black multiracial church, self-destructed in a Guyana settlement named after its leader, the Reverend Jim Jones. A riveting story of complicity and resistance; loyalty and betrayal; black struggle and black sacrifice told through the voices of Black women.
Dec 03, 2018•5 min
