Stage Raw

Stage Raw is an online journal that celebrates and explores the rich arts and culture scene in Los Angeles through various forms of media. The platform provides free searchable listings of events, along with reviews available in both written and podcast formats. Additionally, it features articles, profiles, humor, and essays that highlight diverse perspectives from around the world, aiming to deepen our understanding of local experiences and emotions. We champion the actors on stage, the directors interpreting classic works in new ways, and the creators—be it playwrights, artists, comedians, or musicians—who may lack representation but possess a genuine message. Stage Raw seeks to inspire thought and support both artists and their audiences in the ongoing quest to understand our lives and the significance of our city.

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To Each Their Own

5 days ago | stageraw.com | Steven Morris

William Wilson and Tabitha Trosen (Photo by Kie Sample) Reviewed by Asa FrisArt Crush LA at Atwater Village TheaterThru May 4RECOMMENDEDThe world premiere of To Each Their Own by Travis Williams at Art Crush LA is an excellent first staging of Williams’ Midwestern thriller. Though unfocused at moments, director Brooklyn Sample and ensemble have fully realized and explored the events of the play.
Poison GunGun - Stage Raw - ARTS IN L.A. - SERVED FRESH

5 days ago | stageraw.com | Steven Morris

Dee Freman (Credit: Amandla Baraka)Reviewed by Lovell Estell IIIHudson Guild TheaterThrough April 27RECOMMENDEDGrowing up in the 60’s in rural Louisiana, Dee Freeman had the love of two parents and shared chores and fun with her siblings in a home that was located not far from one that her grandparents had lived in for many years.. “It was a wonderful environment for a child to grow up in”, she says with a smile — until a family tragedy intruded.
Just Like Us - Stage Raw - ARTS IN L.A. - SERVED FRESH

5 days ago | stageraw.com | Steven Morris

Reviewed by Martίn HernándezLos Angeles Theatre CenterThrough May 18. RECOMMENDEDBased on Helen Thorpe’s 2009 book, Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America, Karen Zacarίas’ s non-fiction play is an amusing, sober, and ultimately enraging look at the racist immigration policies of the United States.
Tuesdays With Morrie: Identity Politics in the Trump Era

1 week ago | stageraw.com | Steven Morris

Vance Valencia and Gilbert Reynoso in “Tuesdays With Morrie” at CASA 0101. (Photo by Francis Gacad)Tuesdays With Morrie at CASA 0101Over the Easter weekend, I was in Boyle Heights to see CASA 0101’s production of Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom’s autobiographical Tuesdays With Morrie. There are still the architectural frames of synagogues across Boyle Heights, the East Los Angeles district where the CASA 0101 theater is located.
In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel

1 week ago | stageraw.com | Steven Morris

Susan Priver (Photo by Doug Engalla)Reviewed by G. Bruce SmithDance On Productions at Hudson Backstage TheatreThrough May 18In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel is one of Tennessee Williams’ later plays (1969) that is rarely produced. A box office failure, it was written at a time when he was spiraling downward into depression and alcoholism.
You are Cordially Invited to the End of the World

1 week ago | stageraw.com | Steven Morris

Rafael Goldstein and Joel de la Fuente (Photo by Robert Huskey)Reviewed by Martίn HernándezSouth Coast RepertoryThrough May 3RECOMMENDEDYes, the Earth is dying but it may take a few billion more years for its eventual demise. Greg Murphy (Joel de la Fuente), though, is not so lucky.
Hellas - Stage Raw - ARTS IN L.A. - SERVED FRESH

1 week ago | stageraw.com | Steven Morris

Reviewed by Madison MellonThe BroadwaterThrough May 11Clocking in at five hours and 45 minutes, Hellas is nothing if not ambitious. Written and directed by Christopher William Johnson, the play draws from the writings of Herodotus, Aeschylus’s The Persians, and other classical sources. It endeavors to tell the sweeping story of the Greco-Persian Wars—from the rise of the Hellenic city-states and the development of Athenian democracy to the eventual defeat of the Persian Empire.
Last Night at Mikell's

1 week ago | stageraw.com | Steven Morris

Reviewed by Odalys NaninRobey Theatre Company at the LATCThrough May 11RECOMMENDEDGrant Gerrard’s realistic set wonderfully recreates Harlem’s legendary jazz club, Mikell’s (founded in 1969), and is enhanced by Vanessa Fernandez’s projections of musicians and singers who performed there (including Lena Horn, Earther Kitt, Whitney Houston, Miles David, and Ella Fitzgerald). This sets the production’s tone, but it also turns the bar into a character in and of itself.
Corktown '39 - Stage Raw - ARTS IN L.A. - SERVED FRESH

1 week ago | stageraw.com | Steven Morris

Reviewed by F. Kathleen FoleyRogue MachineThru May 25RECOMMENDEDJohn Fazakerley’s fact-based Corktown ’39 — a sequel to his earlier play Corktown ’57, staged at the Odyssey a few years back — is part family drama, part political thriller, and a wholly engrossing, well-researched window into a little-known event in recent Irish history: the Irish Republican Army’s 1939 plot to assassinate England’s king, George VI, during a visit to America.
Buddies - Stage Raw - ARTS IN L.A. - SERVED FRESH

1 week ago | stageraw.com | Steven Morris

Reviewed by Lovell Estell IIISkyPilot Theatre CompanyThrough May 4. So what does a seemingly normal, heterosexual man do when he discovers that he has not a single male friend? In his self-described “Bromantic comedy,” playwright Ben Abbott presents a humorous tale that might provide food for thought for some lonely guys out there. David (Sean Dube) is a devoted husband and father who suddenly realizes that his only friend is his wife Julia (Alyssa Klein).