tokyo fish story at South Coast Repertory — and more
The prosaic title doesn’t do it justice, but Kimber Lee’s new play, tokyo fish story (the lower case is intentional), is a small gem. Now in a... Read more →
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Patricia Morison: Beautiful, Incandescent, Wunderbar
It was an ordinary date for an interview, like so many others before it and after. The time was the early 1970s and the big question on my plate that... Read more →
The Price of Family Un-Ties
I started last week’s review of The Night Alive by saying that there is nothing quite like a good Irish play. There isn’t, but neither is there... Read more →
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The Night (Very Much Alive) at the Geffen Playhouse
There is nothing quite like a good Irish play, and after seeing The Night Alive, which is having its West Coast premiere at the Geffen Playhouse,... Read more →
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Dame Edna’s
Farewell Visit?
It’s hard to get mad at Dame Edna Everage, the grandly mauve elder stateswoman from Australia with rhinestone everything, from butterfly glasses to... Read more →
Lewis Carroll’s Missing Pages
Theatre doesn’t require a strict adherence to fact; it is famous for distilling broader truths from smart invention. So a play about the famous... Read more →
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The Poetics of Exacerbation
A conversation with a friend last Thanksgiving brought up the subject of why we die or, to put it another way, why we must and should die. No, this... Read more →
Whipping Man Cuts Deep & Wide
COSTA MESA — Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man is not a new play, but it is the first play he wrote that brought him notoriety, and a New York... Read more →
LA Theatre: Three Shows
Not to Miss
Rebecca Gilman is a fearless writer who has repeatedly chosen tough subjects and dealt with them forthrightly and with uncommon astuteness, even if... Read more →
What the Butler Saw — And Didn’t
In his book on farce, Albert Bermel tells us that what defines farce is “to scoff in public at whatever the neighbors’ cherish in private.” To... Read more →
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