Moral Failures & Other Nightmares
There is a tendency for every generation to feel that it is living through something no other generation has ever lived through, especially the bad... Read more →
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A Less-than Evening with The Humans
Sooner or later it was bound to happen. A play showered with glory, here and elsewhere, including Broadway (where it won a Tony and a New York Drama... Read more →
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Starry Days & Nights on SoCal Stages
A Shakespearean production with American movie stars? An endemically American play performed by British actors? And both events running locally in... Read more →
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A Portmanteau Full of Surprises
"Portmanteau" is an old word. You don't hear it often. But Nigerian American playwright Mfoniso Udofia uses it boldly in the title of her play, Her... Read more →
Patricia Morison, 1915-2018
An Appreciation
Dear Readers, The following is a slightly redacted version of a piece that ran in culturalweekly.com on March 19, 2015 — Patricia Morison’s... Read more →
The Power to Amaze
HALI: How can something be 100% truthful and also a fantasy? JU: This is how art works, by capturing the truth through ... Read more →
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Of People, Plays, and Playhouses
As written, Amy Herzog’s Hitchcockian Belleville is a thriller packed with intentionally false leads and misleading real ones that keep you... Read more →
Noises Off at A Noise Within & Other Fun & Games
It takes a special kind of comic sensibility to appreciate Michael Frayn’s Noises Off. A British one is highly recommended, because Frayn’s play... Read more →
America On My Mind: Three Plays
The press release for Nambi E. Kelley’s adaptation of Richard Wright’s Native Son, now on stage at Antaeus in Glendale, tells us that this 1939... Read more →
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A Likely/Unlikely Pairing
At first glance, the two shows currently on stage at Pasadena’s A Noise Within (ANW) would seem to be an odd coupling. Shakespeare’s King Henry V... Read more →
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