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Lackawanna Blues, As Well-Named As It Gets
Lackawanna Blues, now at The Mark Taper Forum, is the kind of show that you wish you could see in a really small space. A club perhaps. A smaller... Read more →
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Wilde Travails, On Stage & Off
In the age of LGBTQ, the tragedy of Oscar Wilde is never far from our consciousness. Laws today may be more enlightened, yet homosexuality seems... Read more →
The Resurrection of Ragtime—And a Theatre
Something pretty stunning is going on at The Pasadena Playhouse — and I don’t just mean Ragtime, the current production on its main stage that... Read more →
Viva Fo! The Playwright As Anarchist
There are many way of looking at a writer’s lifelong accomplishments, but few have been as brazen, political and uninhibited as the baldly... Read more →
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An Inspector Calls Again. And Again.
A trivial bit of information about British novelist, author and playwright J.B. Priestley is that his birth and death dates are mirror images —... Read more →
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Mid-Life Crisis Here We Go. Again.
I’m not sure how many more midlife crises will be at the center of an American play (too many by my count) but, if Linda Vista, the comedy (?) at... Read more →
Good Neighbors In The Pond Next Door
It’s not easy to explain, but it’s a phenomenon familiar to theatregoers of the past 20 years or so. What I’m talking about is a different kind... Read more →
The Fink You Thought You Knew
I would have loved to give Finks, at Rogue Machine, a longer and perhaps more detailed review, but the play — and to a lesser degree the... Read more →
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Critical Thanking
Susan Loewenberg, the longtime producer of L.A. Theatre Works, interviewed me recently about playwright Neil Simon, whose play, California... Read more →
This Valley Wants a Sterner Heart
There is so much to love, admire and respect about Luis Valdez, the man who brought an upstart Chicano theatre into the world in the 1960s with his... Read more →
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