Pandemics Old & New: Two Letters
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 →
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Waiting It Out
Thursday, March 12, 2020, 6:30pm. It’s pitch dark. Still. The power went out at 3:15pm, so there’s no light. The stock market went down... Read more →
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A Sheep In Serpent‘s Clothing
In its ongoing 50th Anniversary, revisiting productions it had tackled in its foundational year or thereabouts, the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble has just... Read more →
A Winter’s Fairy Tale
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 →
Not Ready For Prime Time
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 →
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As Shadows Fall…
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 →
A Lilting Model of Jane Austen’s Emma
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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A Flooding of Hearts & Minds
One-person shows conceived, written and performed by their authors, are a form of performance art. There are not many artists who specialize in... Read more →
Alarm Bells at Rogue Machine
This is complicated, folks. Bear with me. Rogue Machine Theatre in its recently new Venice home at the Electric Lodge has two plays running in... Read more →
Constitutional Playground
How appropriate it is to have Heidi Schreck’s New York hit, What the Constitution Means To Me, play out on the Music Center’s Mark Taper stage... Read more →
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