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Bel Hernandez
Jun 15, 20123 min read
Josefina Lopez: Telling the Stories of her Community
by Dale Reynolds for www.latinheat.com In the early 80’s, Josefina Lopez burst onto the theatrical scene with her play Real Women Have...
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Bel Hernandez
Jun 4, 20122 min read
Take me Out Dissapoints
Reviewed by Dale Reynolds for www.latinheat.com Los Angeles is known to be the world’s capitol for play production: over a thousand...
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Bel Hernandez
May 23, 20122 min read
Evangeline, Queen of Make-Believe Extended
Review by Dale Reynolds, Senior Theater Critic Theatre veterans Rose Portillo and Theresa Chavez’s About Theatre Company has collaborated...
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Bel Hernandez
May 15, 20122 min read
CHARITY: Part III of the (Unfinished) A Mexican Trilogy
Sal Lopez, Evelina Fernandez & Ofelia Medina Los Angeles Theater Center, Through June 3rd at LATC Reviewed by Senior Theater Critic Dale...
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Bel Hernandez
May 14, 20125 min read
Queen of Make Believe: From Two Latinas and a “Lobo” in The Know
Catherine Lidstone as "Evangeline" Based on the Songs by Los Lobos’ Louie Perez and David Hidalgo By Dale Reynolds Its been a long time...
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Bel Hernandez
May 7, 20122 min read
Finding the Burnett Heart
By Dale Reynolds, Senior Theater Critic “Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern…like bad wallpaper.”...
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Bel Hernandez
May 5, 20123 min read
Adaptation of Cyrano Adds Poetic Dimension With ASL
Review by Senior Theater Critic Dale Reynolds This new production, an adaptation by Stephen Sachs of Edmund Rostand’s 1897 über-romantic...
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Bel Hernandez
Apr 23, 20122 min read
“Girl Most Likely To” Disturbingly Funny
The Girl (Mandela Bellamy) defends the Boy's (Tobit Raphael) right to dress as a girl against the Teacher (Nicholas Downs) Through May...
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Bel Hernandez
Apr 15, 20124 min read
Julia Rodriguez Elliot’s Noise Within: Classical Theater Now in Pasadena
By Dale Reynolds One of the most successful classical theatre companies in Southern California moved this year to Pasadena, in a...
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Bel Hernandez
Mar 27, 20123 min read
Waiting For Godot at the Taper
Samuel Beckett’s most famous and enduring play asks more questions than it answers. Is it a religious play, which takes the biblical...
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Bel Hernandez
Mar 27, 20122 min read
Two Gentlemen of Chicago: Theatre of the Populace
Theater Review by Dale Reynolds Katie Nunez and Lisa Valenzuela as the maids Falcon Theater – Runs through April 22nd Shakespeare’s early...
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Bel Hernandez
Mar 15, 20122 min read
Native Voices at the Autry
Two one-man plays by Robert Owens-Greygrass Review by Dale Reynolds Spread out over two evenings, Robert Owens-Greygrass, a storyteller...
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Bel Hernandez
Jan 26, 20123 min read
Hit Play “The King of the Desert” Premieres Casa 0101
Lead actor Rene Rivera Runs January 27 – February 12th Boyle Heights, CA – Casa 0101 Theater Founder Josefina López, will...
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