The Terrorist Next Door
Playwright Wendy Graf has taken on a sizzling subject in her one-woman play, All-American Girl, a contrapuntal title that gives you little idea of... Read more →
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Summer Lilacs…
There may be no better place to see a summer show than under the stars at Topanga Canyon’s Theatricum Botanicum, on a stage constructed in the... Read more →
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A Gospel for the Ages
Given the timing, content and string of traumatizing recent events that have spooked and scarred the nation — especially its African American... Read more →
Oedipus Machina-tions
It may be an ancient story, but it is still one of the best, and Ron Sossi’s reimagined staging of Ellen McLaughlin’s adaptation of Sophocles’... Read more →
W-A-A-Y, WAY Off the King’s Road
In his early short play, The Real Inspector Hound, Tom Stoppard satirized the role of the critic. It was self-satire since Stoppard, in his younger... Read more →
Bad Jews, Good Actors & a Future
There was plenty of laughter at the opening night of Bad Jews at The Geffen Playhouse last week. A kind of willful determination to have a cracking... Read more →
The Heir Not So Apparent
There is a little cream puff of a play going on at International City Theatre (ICT) in Long Beach. It’s called The Heir Apparent and comes from... Read more →
A Permanent Image?
The question mark in the headline is mine. Perhaps this title, minus the mark, refers to the human desire most of us have to leave “a permanent... Read more →
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Is Matilda Everything She Could Be?
Two years ago — June 6, 2013, to be exact — I wrote a piece for Cultural Weekly about the importance of distinguishing what is organic and... Read more →
Deaf West’s Rousing
Spring Awakening
Arousing all senses. This may be the choice three-word assessment of the stunning Deaf West Theatre production of Spring Awakening that made the... Read more →
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