Karen WeinsteinLos Angeles,
If “The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time” were not such terrific theater it would be worth going to see in order to understand what the world looks like through the eyes of an adolescent with Asperger’s, the ...
Lynne FriedmannSan Diego,
After centuries of ballads, poems and other folklore culminating in dozens of movie treatments does the world need another recounting of the Robin Hood legend? The answer is a resounding “yes,” when it’s the imaginative and rollicking ...
Lynne FriedmannSan Diego,
Ringing down the curtain could very well spell curtains for an unsuspecting character in “At This Evening’s Performance” at the North Coast Rep.
A struggling company of classically trained actors is reduced to playing in ...
A forlorn woman drags a wheelie suitcase across the gravel drive.
Lynne FriedmannSan Diego,
A forlorn woman and the pull of an equally forlorn house present more mysteries than are solved in the world premiere of “At The Old Place,” at the La Jolla Playhouse.
We first meet middle-age, college ...
Lynne FriedmannSan Diego,
Psst! Looking for a sure bet? Put your money on the Old Globe’s rollicking, toe-tapping revival of “Guys and Dolls.”
In this musical fable of depression-era Broadway, con man Nathan Detroit (J. Bernard Calloway) has two loves: ...
African-American and Latino ethnicity added to the mix.
Emily S. MendelCA,
Written in 1944, “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), still wields the power to convey truth about the way in which love and need can help and hurt the American family. Standout performances by Karen Aldridge and Sean San ...
A one-man show based on the life of an iconic, profane, rapturous lover of rock and roll.
Nancy S. BishopChicago,
Two writers for the website Third Coast Review—Nancy Bishop and Karin McKie—went to see Erik Jensen’s one-man performance of the life and times of rock critic Lester Bangs. Nancy wrote the review and Karin added {comments}. This is what ...
Emily S. MendelBerkeley,
From the opening minutes of “An Octoroon” when BJJ, the stand-in for author, MacArthur Fellow Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, appears on a blank stage in his underwear and announces that he is a black playwright, you know that you ...
Four women wait in a luxurious room in an unnamed eastern European city.
Emily S. MendelBerkeley,
Four women wait in a luxurious yet austere room in an unnamed eastern European city waiting for an important man who may never arrive. This is the premise of “Splendour” by U.K.’s Abi Morgan (screenwriter of “Suffragette” and “The ...
Nancy S. BishopChicago,
"Ah, Wilderness!", Eugene O’Neill’s only comedy, is a charming, light-hearted play with an element foreign to most O’Neill scripts: a happy ending. The hero, teenaged Richard Miller (truthfully played by Niall Cunningham) is a young man who loves ...
