Andrew Child

Los Angeles

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Harvard '16, Yale PhD '21, Disney College Hopeful '22 He/him/his

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Interview: Coral Peña of HAMLET at Mark Taper Forum

1 week ago | broadwayworld.com | Andrew Child

When I spoke with Coral Peña, who will play Ophelia in Robert O’Hara’s upcoming production of Hamlet at Center Theatre Group, it immediately became clear the production is conjuring up something new in the state of Denmark. “Robert is in conversation with William Shakespeare, injecting his own style into the show,” Peña surmises. “If you’re coming to see a Robert O’Hara show, you’re going to get that. If you’re coming to see a traditional Hamlet, you’re going to get that too.
Review: WIDDLE WOMEN at Elysian Theatre

3 weeks ago | broadwayworld.com | Andrew Child

This is not my first time reviewing an adaptation of Little Women in Los Angeles, so I have to make one thing clear upfront: I was born and raised in Massachusetts and we don’t mess around about Little Women where I’m from. That said, Greta Gerwig’s recent Academy Award-nominated adaptation may need to make some space for an iconic new contender for GOAT.
Review: LIFE OF PI at Ahmanson Theatre

4 weeks ago | broadwayworld.com | Andrew Child

The reviews for Life of Pi have arrived at a clear consensus. After its Sheffield premiere, the play took London, Boston, and then Broadway by storm eliciting praise and garnering prestigious awards for its sumptuous design elements.
Interview: Jennifer Chang of A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2 at Pasadena Playhouse

1 month ago | broadwayworld.com | Andrew Child

Before being tapped to direct A Doll’s House, Part 2 for Pasadena Playhouse, Jennifer Chang mostly remembered Ibsen’s canonical work as a play she read while in undergrad. It has been interesting, then, to not only reflect on a Norwegian play from 1879 through a contemporary lens, but to additionally reflect on Lucas Hnath’s 2017 play through 2025’s landscape.
Review: AINADAMAR: THE FOUNTAIN OF TEARS at LA Opera

1 month ago | broadwayworld.com | Andrew Child

Anyone who has ever strolled down Grand Avenue and glanced up at the street light banners will agree: LA Opera has a brilliant marketing team. With each presentation, they seem to come up with a clean, unified vision that makes their upcoming production seem appealing and broadly approachable. Remember the yellow campaign plastered across the city announcing their recent production of Così fan tutte? The quirky fun of the staging was broadcast perfectly to the public.
Review: COSÍ FAN TUTTE at LA Opera

2 months ago | broadwayworld.com | Andrew Child

I went into LA Opera’s current offering, Michael Cavanagh’s staging of Mozart’s Così fan tutte without any preconceived notions of the libretto, and the program prepared me for the worst. Notes discussing the opera’s “troubling study in power and agency” or warning that “those who are troubled by the story (…) are in good company” seem to foretell of an uncomfortable evening. What dated gender norms and misogynist humor was I about to be subjected to under the thin excuse of a ‘gorgeous score’?
Review: IDOL WORSHIP at Catalina Jazz Club

2 months ago | broadwayworld.com | Andrew Child

When drag queen Peaches Christ reached out to cult cinema icon Mink Stole over 20 years ago about appearing in her upcoming celebration of the John Waters film Desperate Living, she never could have anticipated the friendship and collaborations that would ensue.
Interview: Gregg T. Daniel of TOPDOG/UNDERDOG at Pasadena Playhouse

Mar 4, 2025 | broadwayworld.com | Andrew Child

When director Gregg T. Daniel saw Don Cheadle and Jeffrey Wright in the premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog back in 2002, he knew it was a play he wanted to direct. “The writing is muscular, clever, funny, it just caught me,” he remembers. “I think the Pulitzers got it right,” he continues, reflecting on the play’s 2002 award, which made Parks the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer for Drama. “There’s a great sense of theatricality, an element of surprise.
Review: AN EVENING WITH JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL at Catalina Jazz Club

Mar 4, 2025 | broadwayworld.com | Andrew Child

The Catalina Jazz Club is nestled in an industrial-looking building down a side street off Hollywood Boulevard. It is inconspicuous to say the least— one enters through a parking garage and waits in a courtyard that feels more like an office building than a performance venue. However, inside awaits a dinner club that boasts a surprising range of upcoming performances. John Cameron Mitchell’s cabaret show exhibited his demented, impish persona through a series of high-energy numbers.
Review: THE CAMP at Aratani Theatre

Feb 23, 2025 | broadwayworld.com | Andrew Child

The team behind The Camp, a new opera currently premiering at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center’s Aratani Theatre should be commended for achieving precisely what they set out to do. With a superior level of artistry in terms of performance, composition, and design, the reality of the Japanese American concentration camps is relayed to contemporary audiences.