Anthony Byrnes

It’s time to celebrate the incredible festival of Black theater that just happened across Los Angeles. Theater companies from across the city banded together from Pasadena to Westwood to celebrate almost half a century of Black playwrights from August Wilson and George C. Wolf to James Ijames and Michael

Jelly’s Last Jam at the Pasadena Playhouse is a beast of a production. The remount of George C. Wolfe’s musical take on the life of Jelly Roll Morton originally premiered at the Mark Taper Forum in 1991. The show opens as Jelly Roll dies and is confronted with

Pasadena Playhouse has finally hit its stride and I’m excited to see the classic George C. Wolfe musical, Jelly’s Last Jam, open June 2nd through June 23rd. The Geffen Playhouse has brought back Helder Guimarães for his latest one-man magic show (wrapped in a story) — The Hope Theory

If you love theater, you become very familiar with loss. Not just because so many plays have loss at their core, but because the art form itself is so ephemeral. You sit in a theater, experience something extraordinary, and then, poof, it vanishes. Unlike a favorite painting or poem or

My first pick is a tough ticket, Fat Ham at the Geffen Playhouse which just extended through May 11th (see below for my full review).  If you’ve got a teen, whether their into Shakespeare or not, this is a great show that’ll connect with them, make them a

Here's an August 2016 piece from the throes of the 99-seat contract crisis. If you've been sitting in LA's intimate audiences, you've felt this number shrink. It's useful to revisit as the larger theaters announce their upcoming seasons. There it