Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month: “Villainy, or H.H. Holmes’ Own Story” the incredible true story of H.H. Holmes (1861-1896), America’s first serial killer. Born Herman Webster Mudgett, his favored alias was H.H. Holmes, reportedly assuming the name in tribute to the fictional master of mystery, […]
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“Scene in LA” August 2018 by Steve Zall and Sid Fish
Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month: “Outlaw” During his years with the Hells Angels, Christie survived prison, multiple investigations, prosecutions and assassination attempts. Through it all, he considered himself to be a peacemaker in the outlaw biker community. With a reputation firmly established in popular culture, […]
“Scene in LA” June 2018 by Steve Zall and Sid Fish
Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month: “Alice and the Fabulous Tea Party” Vaudeville, burlesque, panto, farce and fantasy combine to make this a no-holds-barred evening of hilarious theatre. Set in a fabulously overdone and wild garden-themed Victorian salon, Alice (now a grown woman) returns to Wonderland […]
“Scene in LA” May 2018 by Steve Zall and Sid Fish
Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month: “Cardboard Piano” Against the backdrop of Uganda’s civil war, the union of the daughter of an American missionary and a local teenage girl is disrupted by violence. Hansol Jung’s haunting drama confronts the religious and cultural roots of intolerance, […]
“Scene in LA” February 2018 by Steve Zall and Sid Fish
Valentine’s Day is coming fast! Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theaters this month: “Dessa Rose” tells the story of a young black woman (a runaway slave) and a young white woman (an abandoned mother) and their journey to acceptance in the antebellum South, as they tell their […]