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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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 →
A Challenging Argonautika & A Challenge To American Argot
A Noise Within (ANW) is not known for backing off of hard work. Artistic Co-Directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott have built ANW by... Read more →
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 →
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