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A Bewitching Pair of Period Plays
A play with as enticing a title as the one-word Witch is hard to pass up and this season opener in The Geffen Playhouse’s smaller space, with its... Read more →
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A Gazebo in Search of Itself
There’s what happened, and what we remember. There’s what we remember and the story we tell. —Hannah and the Dread Gazebo * A sneaky little... Read more →
Frankenstein‘s Conundrum
At first I knew nothing at all. But I studied the ways of men and slowly I learned: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at... Read more →
Twelfth Night With a Hey and a Ho…
Many of Shakespeare’s comedies are, if not the food of love, then certainly the fuel of fun and mainstay of summer theatre, especially when it’s... Read more →
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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 →
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