SYLVIE DRAKE is a tri-lingual translator, writer, and former theatre critic and columnist for theLos Angeles Times. She was born and grew up in Alexandria, Egypt, and worries that she may have traded one third-world country for another. Fingers crossed that she’s wrong, wrong, wrong.
The late Jerry Herman can be accused of many things: “glitzy optimism,” a smiling and inviting personality, lyrics he wrote that jump off the... Read more →
I know a headline like that makes very little sense in the 21st century, but these are highly abnormal times, with an entrenched pandemic, raging... Read more →
It’s been too many months since any of us have set foot in a real theatre to see a real stage show, surrounded — elbow to elbow — by fellow... Read more →
At the end of World War I, my grandmother Louly Arbib Barda, my mother’s mother, sat down in Alexandria, Egypt, to write a six-page letter to her... Read more →
In its ongoing 50th Anniversary, revisiting productions it had tackled in its foundational year or thereabouts, the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble has just... Read more →
You’ll notice that the headline above has added a word to the title of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. It’s there because a fairy tale is... Read more →
Full disclosure: I’m a couple of generations removed from that of the creators of the Vampire Cowboys’ Revenge Song now rattling rafters and... Read more →
Anyone who's had a close brush with the devastation of a mind that has lost its moorings knows what a profound tragedy that can be. You listen and... Read more →
It’s hard these days to find a musical written for the sheer lighthearted fun of it, one that may not shake the earth, but can provide some welcome... Read more →
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