Tom Chaits

Everything in New York Goes BANG!Written and performed by Robert Galinsky One Night Only Debut Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 8 PM Hudson Mainstage Theatre, 6539 Santa Monica Blvd in Hollywood For tickets ($25), visit EverythingInNewYorkGoesBangRun time: 60 minutes Following his successful acclaimed solo show The Bench, A Homeless Love Story, NY-based performer Robert Galinsky…

A MONSTER ARTIST Better get tickets NOW. The influential performance artist and provocateur  Ron Athey is coming to L.A.’s REDCAT Aug. 26 to 28, 2021 to present the Los Angeles premiere of Acephalous Monster, a performance with projections, readings, lectures, appropriated text and sound. Largely inspired by the secret society of Acéphale, Andre Masson’s design of…

BEYOND SAVING The title of the Loft Ensemble’s world premiere presentation asks the question, Will You Save Them? Unfortunately the answer is, “I can’t.” While the production is not completely lacking in positive attributes, without a complete rewrite of the script, this journey into the dark side of human nature will remain a lost cause….

HARD DRIVING COCK GOES DEEP Love may be “a many-splendored thing” but as Pat Benatar sang it’s also a “battlefield.” In Mike Bartlett’s Cock, making its Los Angeles premiere at Rogue Machine, the gloves are off and all the players come out swinging. For a riveting non-stop 90 minutes they counter and torment each other…

SHINING NEW LUMIERE ON A FABLED CLASSIC Gaston Leroux’s novel The Phantom of the Opera created a sensation when it was first unveiled as a serialization in the French newspaper Le Gaulois from September 1909 to January 1910. Based   partly on actual events that haunted the Paris Opera in the late 19th century, the tale…

MORE MEAT If you are one of the many theatergoers who caught Pacific Resident Theatre’s production of Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Road (and possibly the special Christmas follow-up) during its unprecedented 6-month run, then you’ll likely be anticipating the third installment, The Unfryable Meatness of Being. If you missed Out There you might…

A BLAZING-HOT PRODUCTION As Los Angeles heats up to sizzling temperatures this week, there is a cool, refreshing theatrical breeze blowing down the pike. It may be wise to avoid the 110-in-the-shade weather outside, but the musical 110 in the Shade at Actors Co-op in Hollywood is not to be missed. With a libretto by…

THE GHOST OF GERSHWIN: SONGS 10, BOOK 3 There is a lot to sing about in the Group Rep’s season closer The Ghost of Gershwin. It contains a bevy of freshly penned ditties by Wayland Pickard (music) and Laura Manning (lyrics co-written with Pickard) that are nostalgic in tone and capture the style and essence…

ALL THAT CHAZZ Actor Chazz Palminteri returns to the Los Angeles stage in the world premiere of Unorganized Crime, currently shooting up the joint at the Elephant Theater in Hollywood. He first hit the boards in 1990 with his highly acclaimed one-man autobiographical outing A Bronx Tale which catapulted him into a successful movie career…