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Sylvie Drake

Sylvie Drake

SYLVIE DRAKE is a tri-lingual translator, writer, and former theatre critic and columnist for theLos Angeles Times. She was born and grew up in Alexandria, Egypt, and worries that she may have traded one third-world country for another. Fingers crossed that she’s wrong, wrong, wrong.

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Three Days, Two Casts,
One Comedy

By Sylvie Drake on August 1, 2018

British playwright Patrick Marber’s delightful adaptation of Turgenev’s A Month In the Country, now on stage at Antaeus, is a seductive twist on... Read more →
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A Stumbling Arrival & Departure

By Sylvie Drake on July 18, 2018

There are a few too many surprises in The Fountain Theatre’s recent unveiling of Arrival & Departure, a much touted and somewhat overproduced... Read more →
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Moral Failures & Other Nightmares

By Sylvie Drake on July 11, 2018

There is a tendency for every generation to feel that it is living through something no other generation has ever lived through, especially the bad... Read more →
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A Less-than Evening with The Humans

By Sylvie Drake on June 27, 2018

Sooner or later it was bound to happen. A play showered with glory, here and elsewhere, including Broadway (where it won a Tony and a New York Drama... Read more →
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Starry Days & Nights on SoCal Stages

By Sylvie Drake on June 13, 2018

A Shakespearean production with American movie stars? An endemically American play performed by British actors? And both events running locally in... Read more →
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A Portmanteau Full of Surprises

By Sylvie Drake on June 6, 2018

"Portmanteau" is an old word. You don't hear it often. But Nigerian American playwright Mfoniso Udofia uses it boldly in the title of her play, Her... Read more →
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Patricia Morison, 1915-2018
An Appreciation

By Sylvie Drake on May 30, 2018

Dear Readers, The following is a slightly redacted version of a piece that ran in culturalweekly.com on March 19, 2015 — Patricia Morison’s... Read more →
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The Power to Amaze

By Sylvie Drake on May 23, 2018

HALI: How can something be 100% truthful and also a fantasy? JU: This is how art works, by capturing the truth through                  ... Read more →
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Of People, Plays, and Playhouses

By Sylvie Drake on May 15, 2018

As written, Amy Herzog’s Hitchcockian Belleville is a thriller packed with intentionally false leads and misleading real ones that keep you... Read more →
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Noises Off at A Noise Within & Other Fun & Games

By Sylvie Drake on May 2, 2018

It takes a special kind of comic sensibility to appreciate Michael Frayn’s Noises Off. A British one is highly recommended, because Frayn’s play... Read more →
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