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Musings on what theatre is - and can be - in Los Angeles.
KCRW's Opening the Curtain
KCRW's Opening the Curtain
A theatrical sudoku puzzle
28 MAR 2019 · “Incognito” at the Son of Semele is a puzzle play.
Female power? Hell yes.
18 MAR 2019 · Sarah De Lappe’s play “The Wolves” is having a bit of a moment. On top of being a finalist for the Pulitzer, it’s slated for over 50 productions across the US - making it one of the year’s most produced plays.
Time for Block Party to evolve
11 MAR 2019 · If you’ve been patiently waiting for a play about roller derby, I have good news. If you had hoped it would be a great play about roller derby - um…not so much. “For the love of it (or the roller derby play)” takes us inside the locker...
Bring your kids to the theater!
5 MAR 2019 · The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts latest offering, Pigpen Theatre Company’s “The Old Man and the Old Moon” is the ambling story of how the light gets into the moon told by seven guys who play all the parts and double as a...
Sometimes the past is more real than the present
26 FEB 2019 · What’s the difference between a play and a film? That’s one of the questions that Brazilian director Christiane Jatahy asks with her stunning piece “What if they went to Moscow?” How Ms. Jatahy poses that elegant question is a little...
A method to the political madness
19 FEB 2019 · The Actors’ Gang has two things that run through their productions: style and politics. The style is a distant relative of Commedia Dell’Arte, the Italian comic tradition built around stock characters like Harlequin, Pantalone, the corrupt...
Questioning a fairy tale
12 FEB 2019 · Matthew Bourne’s “Cinderella” at the Ahmanson is fascinating as much for what it isn’t as for what it is.
Our inescapable past.
5 FEB 2019 · For all it’s seeming simplicity, the Wooster Group’s latest show is complicated, dense experience. Let’s start with the title: “The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation.” What’s a...
Fighting the patriarchy
29 JAN 2019 · In Taylor Mac’s play “Hir” (spelled H-I-R - more on that in a minute), the old order simply won’t stand.
Hidden classical treasures
22 JAN 2019 · One of LA theatre’s hidden treasures is the theatre that happens at the Getty Villa. The Getty Villa’s latest production goes up this coming weekend with a site-specific show from Four Larks called “Katabasis.” Four Larks - like the Villa...
Musings on what theatre is - and can be - in Los Angeles.
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