REVIEW: THE BOY FROM OZ, CELEBRATION THEATRE BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO In 2004 The Boy From Oz starring Hugh Jackman ran on Broadway for 365 performances before it closed at the end of Jackman’s contract, and after he won Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor […]

Interview with director MICHAEL SHEPPERD About Celebration Theatre’s Production of The Boy from Oz BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO This April (2016) Los Angeles’ very own Celebration Theatre at the Lex in association with Nicholas Caprio, Michael C. Kricfalusi, Todd Milliner and Jack Morrissey will present, under the artistic direction of Michael Matthews and Michael Shepperd, the […]

REVIEW: NEXT THING YOU KNOW BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Intimate theater is thriving all over Los Angeles and the Chromolume Theatre at the Attic is one of the quintessential hot spots to take in a show with a mere fifty strangers. Currently running at the Chromolume is the West Coast premiere of Joshua Saltzman and […]

REVIEW: THE REVISIONIST BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Most know actor Jesse Eisenberg for his memorable roles in The Village, Zombieland, and The Social Network, but what most are not aware of is his second career as an American playwright. The Wallis Annenberg’s West Coast premiere of Eisenberg’s third play The Revisionist, which premiered in February 2013 […]

REVIEW: BROKEN FENCES BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO The Road Theatre Company continues its 2015-2016 25th anniversary season with the West Coast premiere of the play Broken Fences by Steven Simoncic. The play takes place in a neighborhood on Chicago’s deep West Side where gentrification driven by aggressive capitalism is forcing long-time residents out to make […]

REVIEW: FLY BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO The Pasadena Playhouse in conjunction with Crossroads Theatre Company presents the West Coast premiere of Fly by Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan. Inspired by the American heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen, Fly dramatizes the story of four American Air Corp fighters who flew over the skies of Europe and […]