Christine Deitner

regional managing editor

Christine Deitner received her B.F.A. in Theatre Directing/Acting from New York University [Playwrights Horizons]. She has directed versions of established works [Macbeth, The Three Sisters, Tis Pitty Shee's A Whore, Hills Like White Elephants], originals by others [Can't Catch Me Little Man, Watered Down] and originals [Anus Mundi, Entropy] along with numerous musicals at the high school level. She traveled as a stage and company manager with musicals and dance shows in North America and Europe before moving to Los Angeles where her short film The Space Between played at LA Shorts Fest in 2009 and at AFI. Christine has worked for Warner Bros. [Tom and Jerry, Right Now Kapow, Looney Tunes], The Simpsons [the movie, the ride, the EA game], Rob Zombie [The Haunted World of El Superbeasto], on the 2009 Sundance documentary Dirt! The Movie, on Disney’s Hannah Montana: The Movie, as a Reader and Story Analyst for Sundance, Exclusive Media and National Geographic and as a screener for Sundance Film Festival’s feature documentaries. Her screenplays have reached the Semi or Quarter Finals with Gotham, Creative Screenwriting, Zoetrope, WriteMovies.com and the Nicholl but she is most proud to be able to say she was selected to attend Director’s Lab West in May 2017 at Pasadena Playhouse.

“America Adjacent” At The Skylight Theatre Is Worth Consideration…

Posted by Christine Deitner | 28th Feb 2019 | Los Angeles, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

If this sounds stark, that’s only because a simple paragraph of explanation cannot possibly do the script justice. Los Angeles based playwright Boni B. Alvarez is himself a son of Filipino immigrant parents and he has tapped into his roots to craft multi-dimensional characters that deliver surprising levels of humor in spite of the fact that they are essentially prisoners. The humor reveals the humanity and depth of these characters in ways that draw you close to them no matter how far removed you might feel from their situation.

Matthew Bourne’s “Cinderella”–A Breathtaking Fairytale At War

Posted by Christine Deitner | 13th Feb 2019 | Los Angeles, Review, Theatre and Dance, United States of America

When he first created his Cinderella in 1997, Matthew Bourne couldn’t have predicted any...

“Ms. Smith Goes To Washington”-The Fountain Theatre At Los Angeles City Hall

Posted by Christine Deitner | 6th Feb 2019 | Los Angeles, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

On Thursday, January 24th a lucky group of citizens in Los Angeles was treated to a unique...

“Paradise” at Odyssey Theatre – STEM and The Teenage Brain

Posted by Christine Deitner | 2nd Feb 2019 | Los Angeles, Theatre and Religion, Theatre and Science, United States of America

Odyssey Theatre presents us with another thought-provoking play in Paradise by Laura Maria...

Complexity Abounds In Antaeus Theatre Company’s “The Cripple Of Inishmaan”-Glendale, CA

Posted by Christine Deitner | 30th Jan 2019 | Los Angeles, Review, Theatre and Art, United States of America

Situated on their two-year-old permanent home on Broadway in Glendale, CA, Antaeus Theatre Company...

Brecht Comes Home To Santa Monica With City Garage’s “Arturo Ui”

Posted by Christine Deitner | 12th Jul 2018 | Los Angeles, Review, Translation, United States of America

There are plays that feel timeless because they strike familiar chords and speak to something at...

“Ameryka”- Critical Mass And Block Party 2018

Posted by Christine Deitner | 5th May 2018 | Los Angeles, Playwriting, Poland, Polish Theatre Abroad, Review

In 2017, Los Angeles’ Center Theatre Group launched a new, and frankly exciting, idea known as...

Molière’s “The School For Wives” At The City Garage Theatre, Santa Monica

Posted by Christine Deitner | 8th Mar 2018 | Adaptation, Los Angeles, Review

Los Angeles can be a tricky theatre city to pin down. Though we do have a theatre district it is...

“Water By The Spoonful” At The Mark Taper Forum

Posted by Christine Deitner | 21st Feb 2018 | Los Angeles, Review, United States of America

From the moment the play begins, it doesn’t take long for anyone to understand why playwright...

“Bright Star” Shines It’s Light on The Ahmanson, Los Angeles

Posted by Christine Deitner | 28th Oct 2017 | Los Angeles, Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America

With the opening of Bright Star at The Ahmanson Theatre at The Music Center in Downtown Los...

“The Dance Of Death” At The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble

Posted by Christine Deitner | 26th Oct 2017 | Adaptation, Los Angeles, Review, United States of America

Trapped in an atmosphere rife with the air of past punishment and with no concrete tasks to take up their time, Alice [Lizzy Kimball] and The Captain [Darrell Larson] play cards, say they will allow themselves one drink then pour three or more over the course of an evening, and argue with an off-stage cook about a dinner that never arrives. They wonder whether they should take on another lover and recall how the last threesome went. If this doesn’t sound like Strindberg to you, you’ve been missing out for not only is the play as sexually explicit as one could get in its time, it is also brutally funny and Ms. Kimball and Mr. Larson know exactly how to use both elements to their most effective ends as they engage in a slowly building battle for supremacy over the other.

West Coast Premiere – “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally” At The Odyssey Theatre

Posted by Christine Deitner | 28th Sep 2017 | Los Angeles, Transmedia, United States of America

Founded in 1969 by Artistic Director Ron Sossi, The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble is Los Angeles’...

“Shout Sister Shout!” at The Pasadena Playhouse

Posted by Christine Deitner | 11th Aug 2017 | Los Angeles, Musical Theatre, Theatre and Opera, United States of America

First founded in 1917 as the Pasadena Community Playhouse by Gilmor Brown, who began his career as a producer in a renovated burlesque theatre, The Pasadena Playhouse was named the official state theatre of California in 1937 after Brown and his company successfully produced the entire Shakespeare canon on a single stage (a unique feat […]