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.
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
A Shakespearean production with American movie stars? An endemically American play performed by British actors? And both events running locally in... Read more →
"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 →
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 →
As written, Amy Herzog’s Hitchcockian Belleville is a thriller packed with intentionally false leads and misleading real ones that keep you... Read more →
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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