-Ah! L.A. STAGE TIMES, LA TIMES, LA Weekly Reviews
RECENT PRESS
Read of my performance as DEATH in the original play MELANCHOLIA, running at the LATC til April 14, 2013:
"Jasmine Orpilla plays this beautifully haunting version of La Muerte whose incredible singing voice invokes an almost holy eeriness,"
Article by Lydia Kapp, LIFE IN LA, http://lifeinla.com/7978/0/War+on+Our+Shores++A+Review+of+Melancholia+at+the+Los+Angeles+Theatre+Center.html
From Andrea Kittelson of the EXAMINER writes:
"The ever-present yet unpredictable Death (Jasmine Orpilla), who sings a heavenly soprano, approaches from the outside, and then stays and discreetly hovers. She enters the action occasionally from a variety of angles with her glorious voice perhaps as a reminder that death is out of our control yet never out of reach, and death is both feared and a soothing peace."
Read the review here: http://www.examiner.com/review/melancholia-enlightens-at-the-los-angeles-theatre-center?cid=rss
I was featured #3 in LA Weekly’s Top 10 Most Memorable Art Events 2012:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/12/art_shows_exhibits_best_top_2012.php
Read about my musical creative process for theatre in L.A. STAGE TIMES:
http://www.lastagetimes.com/author/jasmineorpilla/
And reviews from LA Times and LA Weekly
LA Times, F. Kathleen Foley: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/04/theater-review-vault-bankrupt.html
LA Weekly, Steven Leigh Morris: http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2011/09/reviews_of_a_widow_of_no_impor.php
Full length article in LA Weekly by Catherine Wagley for "See What Love the Father has for Us" (Asher Hartman): http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/04/circuit_city_asher_hartman.php
Catherine Wagley on Twitter:
"Jasmine Orpilla, who goes from demure to fierce and back, may be my favorite thing…"
More reviews here!
