HAMLET


Ramón de Ocampo’s bravura lead performance, Elizabeth Swain’s insightful direction, and a striking production design are just three reasons to celebrate Antaeus Theatre Company’s return to in-person productions with their meaty, three-hour long Hamlet.
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METAMORPHOSES


A Noise Within closes its 2021-2022 season with what may well be the classical theater company’s most breathtakingly gorgeous production ever, Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses.
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ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL


All’s Well That Ends Well might be Shakespeare’s most quoted title, but it’s not often theatergoers get to see the play itself performed live on stage, just one reason A Noise Within’s Spring 2022 season opener is one that no L.A. Bardophile will want to miss.
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JULIUS CAESAR


Adeptly trimmed to a brisk eighty minutes by Theatricum Botanicum legend Ellen Geer and filled with as much action as it is with political intrigue, William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar adds up to classical theater as thrillingly staged as it is easily accessible to 21st Century audiences.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM


A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a quarter-century tradition at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, is back for 2021, trimmed to ninety minutes and jam-packed with physical comedy and song performed by one of the finest Theatricum casts ever, most of them performing in it for the very first time.
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AND THEN THERE WERE NONE

Still going strong in its 98th season, Whittier Community Theater entertains loyal locals with a suspenseful, somewhat slow-paced, but mostly fine production of Agatha Christie’s mystery classic And Then There Were None.
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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

Superb lead performances and a production design that looks as if it were designed with A Streetcar Named Desire in mind make Inland Valley Repertory Theatre’s revival of the 1947 Tennessee Williams classic one of the company’s best productions ever.
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MEASURE FOR MEASURE

A powerful government official offers to suspend a sex offender’s death sentence in exchange for a night of love-making with the convicted man’s virginal sister.

William Shakespeare foreshadows the #MeToo movement by about four hundred years in Measure For Measure, a four-century-old play given stunning contemporary relevance by directors Armin Shimerman and Elizabeth Swain at Antaeus Theatre Company.
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