What’s So Funny?
Comedy. You’ve heard this one before. It’s what occurs when something bad happens to someone else, like slipping on a banana peel, especially if... Read more →
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The Ultimate Decency of Indecent
What is so striking about Indecent, the Paula Vogel play that opened Sunday at the Ahmanson, is not just that it tackles lesbianism head-on, but that... Read more →
A Slightly Frazzled Edward Tulane
For some time now, the 24th Street Theatre has been specializing in plays for children designed to make them think and feel. Plays with human heft.... Read more →
Daniel’s Husband & Life’s Perversity
Sometimes…it does feel as if life is simply out to get us. You make a choice you believe is right, you fight for it with everything you’ve got,... Read more →
Inside the Block Party, Welcome All & Then Some
There is a temptation to play with the words BLOCK PARTY when it comes to the three productions chosen each year by Center Theatre Group (CTG) for... Read more →
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Falsettos, the Musical That’s Here to Stay
Much like the unconventional family in William Finn and James Lapine’s Falsettos, this is a musical that you might say is constantly regrouping.... Read more →
The Niceties, Is That All There Isn’t?
Eleanor Burgess’ The Niceties, a two-hander that tackles related problems about rightness, wrongness and acceptance is currently triggering gasps... Read more →
Faith Healer Heal Thyself
Brian Friel is the kind of misanthropic and poetic playwright who speaks to me: elusive, eloquent, hiding somewhere deep behind the words. Yet the... Read more →
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice Taken & Given
Dear Sugar: I was really looking forward to seeing your adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s book last Sunday at The Pasadena Playhouse—which... Read more →
Nothing Poor About These Yella Rednecks
Playwright Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone came and went, at South Coast Rep (SCR) and at East West Players, garlanded in all the “oohs” and “aaahs”... Read more →
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