Good Neighbors In The Pond Next Door
It’s not easy to explain, but it’s a phenomenon familiar to theatregoers of the past 20 years or so. What I’m talking about is a different kind... Read more →
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The Fink You Thought You Knew
I would have loved to give Finks, at Rogue Machine, a longer and perhaps more detailed review, but the play — and to a lesser degree the... Read more →
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Critical Thanking
Susan Loewenberg, the longtime producer of L.A. Theatre Works, interviewed me recently about playwright Neil Simon, whose play, California... Read more →
This Valley Wants a Sterner Heart
There is so much to love, admire and respect about Luis Valdez, the man who brought an upstart Chicano theatre into the world in the 1960s with his... Read more →
Paying the Price of Admission
With a title like Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living, you can pretty much tell that the play that just opened at The Fountain Theatre is going to be... Read more →
Quack Like a Doc & Laugh Out Loud
How many times have you stood in front of a television set and wondered about that strapping, healthy looking doctor on the screen, grinning from ear... Read more →
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A Musical Look At Scourges of Our Time
Sitting through the opening night of Dear Evan Hansen at The Ahmanson Theatre last Friday, lines from another musical began to run through my mind:... Read more →
Two Plays
Currently on Southern California stages, two plays offer intriguing if imperfect takes on very different issues, one ancient and one modern. Branden... Read more →
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, Alive & Well In Pasadena
Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead— or R&G for short — is the embodiment of the oxymoron: intelligent silliness — a... Read more →
Hot Stuff
This past Saturday, Rogue Machine opened British playwright Tom Morton-Smith’s hit Royal Shakespeare Company play Oppenheimer, and the occasion... Read more →
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