Sweating America’s False Promises
They may not have exclusive dominion over history, but it’s a fact that artists are the ones who show us the way. Visionary playwrights, in... Read more →
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RAT-TAT-TAT, YOU’RE IT!
There’s a young playwright in town whose name you would do well to remember. It is Dionna Michelle Daniel. She has written a theatre piece called... Read more →
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Three Days, Two Casts,
One Comedy
British playwright Patrick Marber’s delightful adaptation of Turgenev’s A Month In the Country, now on stage at Antaeus, is a seductive twist on... Read more →
A Stumbling Arrival & Departure
There are a few too many surprises in The Fountain Theatre’s recent unveiling of Arrival & Departure, a much touted and somewhat overproduced... Read more →
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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