REVIEW: THE TEMPEST BY RYAN M. LUEVANO If you like theatre and immersive experiences then you’ve likely seen the ads for The Shakespeare Center LA and After Hours Theatre Company’s premiere of The Tempest: An Immersive Experience, a fully reimagined immersive performance. A performance where “Guests will find themselves shipwrecked onto the shifting sands of […]

REVIEW: 2:22 A GHOST STORY BY RYAN M. LUEVANO Halloween maybe over, but if you’re still craving something spooky, the Ahmanson Theatre is offering the U.S. premiere of 2:22 A Ghost Story play by Danny Robins. The play seeks to answer the question: Is that ghost heard on the baby monitor at 2:22am or something else? The […]

REVIEW: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD BY RYAN M. LUEVANO A new To Kill a Mockingbird play seems well over do even when the first adaptation by Christopher Sergel only debuted in 1990. Since its first publication in 1960, the book by Harper Lee was born to unto the world as an instant classic of modern American literature. […]

REVIEW: WHO’S AFRIAD OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? BY RYAN M. LUEVANO Now playing at the Geffen Playhouse is Edward Albee’s 1963 Tony Award Winning play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? This classic play takes place in the living room on the campus of a small New England college in 1962 in the wee hours of the morning. […]

REVIEW: PARADISE BLUE BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO The Geffen Playhouse’s latest offering takes us into a world of smoky blue notes and noir milieu set in a jazz club in 1949 Detroit. Tony Award-nominated playwright Dominique Morisseau’s play Paradise Blue takes the stage in a production that is as vivid as it is a vital piece of […]

REVIEW: GEM OF THE OCEAN BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO There’s something fascinating about plays that are set in the ‘olden days’; simpler times, when people just sat around talking to one another face to face. Watching one of these works is like finding a secret door that takes us back in time, if only for […]

REVIEW: BURIED CHILD BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO I remember picking up Sam Shepard’s play Buried Child from the, now closed, Samuel French Bookshop on Sunset Blvd., a couple years ago. Then upon reading this strange, dark and humorous play, I remember thinking: What just happened? Who are these people? How could a whole family be so […]

INTERVIEW: YUVAL RON BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO This fall award-winning Los Angeles based theater company Son of Semele Ensemble presents Maureen Huskey’s new experimental play The Woman Who Went to Space as Man, with a musical score by award winning composer Yuval Ron. World music artist, composer, educator, peace activist, and record producer Yuval Ron’s notable compositions include music […]

REVIEW: NATIVE GARDENS BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Karen Zacarías’ new comedy Native Gardens, now playing at the Pasadena Playhouse, is the perfect fit for this city’s perfectly tailored green lawns and gardening lifestyle that includes the celebrated Tournament of Roses Parade. The play directed by Jason Alexander proves that just how challenging it can be […]

REVIEW: STAND DOWN THE MARCH BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO In the profusion of the over 100 works in the “ensemble theatre” category at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, Naomi Brodkin’s play Stand Down the March is a diamond in the rough. The play was commissioned by Next Theatre of Evanston in 2011 and went on […]