“Wicked Lit 2014” — Another Great Trilogy of Terror

The 2014 staging of Unbound Productions’ “Wicked Lit” (now through November 8) at Mountain View Mausoleum and Cemetery is one […] Read more

“Dummies” at Zombie Joe’s Underground Theater: Weird but Good, and Not for Dummies

The natural descendant of theater’s long-running tradition of Southern Gothic family-based plays, DUMMIES is what you’d expect of Zombie Joe’s […] Read more

Splashy Entertainment in Silent-land: Vox Lumiere’s Production of “The Phantom of the Opera”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Arf-8fVyJE[/youtube] Kevin Saunders Hayes’ production of “The Phantom of the Opera” is called “an explosive mash-up of music, dance, technology […] Read more

The Visceral Company Presents: RECALL by Eliza Clark

The Visceral Company kicks off it’s spine-chilling 2014 season with the West Coast premiere of sci-fi thriller, Recall. Written by […] Read more

Todd Robbins and Teller Bring Play Dead to Life at The Geffen

Writing a review for this revival of “Play Dead” currently in an extended run at the Geffen Playhouse is a […] Read more

Alison Pill Lights Up the Stage in “Wait Until Dark” at the Geffen

The thriller Wait Until Dark at the Geffen plays out like a cross between Double Indemnity (1944) and one of […] Read more

“Lovecraft: Nightmare Suite” — Six Fearsome Tales from the Father of Cthulhu

“Lovecraft: Nightmare Suite” (currently playing at the Lex in Hollywood, CA) is an H.P. Lovecraft fan’s dream—literally and figuratively, as […] Read more

Horror Is His Formula: “The Baby,” Live On Stage At The Lex

Germaine (Natasha Charles Parker) feeds her brother Baby (Torrey Halverson), who wears a diaper and sleeps in a crib; looking on are […] Read more

A Complex Tale of Insanity and Death: Kill Me, Now At The Lex

Visceral Company is kind of a broken record (if anyone still gets that technological reference)—one great show after another, each […] Read more

Come to Veronica’s Room and Scream For a While

Every kind of storytelling implies a connection between the audience and the people in the story, good or bad. Hitchcock […] Read more