Category Archives: Reviews

The theatrical department at Palisades High School is widely admired for its talented singers, dancers and actors and the two major productions they perform every year, one a musical, the other a play. With the Covid-19 shutdown, it appeared that this year’s...

The Theatre Palisades Actors’ Troupe presented a Zoom edition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol on December 16. Annually the TPAT presents a radio play at Christmas for residents of Pacific Palisades. This year, more than 118 people registered to watch the...

Holly Sidell is one gutsy, beautiful lady. She had a double mastectomy following a diagnosis of stage-2 breast cancer. Barely recovered, and questioning if she could have children, she learned she carried the BRCA 1 hereditary gene mutation, which meant...

Southern California’s longest running production of “The Nutcracker” will return for its 47th season and feature nine dancers who live in Pacific Palisades or attend school here. The Broad Stage production, which starts Thanksgiving Weekend, will include the pre-professional dancers and...

With Thanksgiving just around the corner and out-of-town guests arriving and wanting to be entertained, take them to “Ruthless! The Musical” at the Pierson Playhouse. This is the perfect musical for that fault-finding aunt or the uncle who is driving...

      Many people have read the critically acclaimed mystery novel, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” since it was published in 2003. A neighbor’s dog is murdered and Christopher Boone, who appears to be on...