If you like your existential misery wrapped in snappy one liners, Tracy Letts is the playwright for you. He did…
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I have seen studies claiming that the majority of adolescents go through their teenage years with little distress. I have…
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The LA Opera has kicked off its 2018-19 season with gusto. Verdi’s “Don Carlo” is grand opera with a capital…
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The Taper is kicking off the 2018-19 season with a strong start, Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize winning “Sweat.” Written in…
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Either the emperor is wearing no clothes or I need to return to the Ahmanson and watch “The Humans” again….
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I must admit to having looked forward to seeing a new work by David Henry Hwang — “M. Butterfly” and…
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The Candide credits make it look like opera designed by a committee. But what a committee. It didn’t start that…
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Verdi’s “Nabucco” could be conceptualized as the protest opera for all seasons. It premiered in 1842, when Giuseppe Verdi was…
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