Drama Review: "Amadeus" Still Thrills In This Superb Revival
“Amadeus,” Pasadena Playhouse, Feb. 11 - Mar. 15, 2026 Feb. 18, 2026 | By Bruce R. Feldman In Brief: Peter Shaffer’s florid period drama was a huge hit in London and on Broadway in the early 1980s. It holds up well some 45 years on, but the real pleasure in Pasadena Playhouse’s lavish staging is Jefferson Mays’s bravura lead performance. Jefferson Mays in Amadeus at Pasadena Playhouse (Photo: Jeff Lorch) Let’s give author Peter Shaffer his due. He took two historical fig
Review: Hey, Old Friends. Revisiting Wilder and Rostand Masterworks
“The Skin of Our Teeth,” A Noise Within, Pasadena, Sept. 1-29, 2024 “Cyrano de Bergerac,” Pasadena Playhouse, Sept. 4-29, 2024 September 11, 2024 | By Bruce R. Feldman In Brief: Two classic plays, both alike in celebrity, in Pasadena. One production is reverential, the other is a triumph of imagination, audacity, and poetry. The cast of "The Skin of Our Teeth" at Noise Within (Photo: Craig Schwartz) It’s September and the new Southern California theatre season is just getting
Review: "The Sound Inside" – Two Lost Souls Adrift And Desperately Seeking
“The Sound Inside,” Pasadena Playhouse, Sept. 6 – Oct. 1, 2023 Sept. 15, 2023 | By Bruce R. Feldman In Brief: Adam Rapp’s emotive drama...