Emily S. MendelSan Francisco,
"Humanism is dead, those who follow it are just old sentimentalists" — Eugène Ionesco In “Rhinoceros,” the celebrated absurdist play by Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994), we witness herd mentality gone amuck in its most literal form. ...
Emily S. MendelSan Francisco,
San Francisco’s current, and unfortunately too brief, special engagement of the Tony® and Grammy® Award-winning Broadway hit “Beautiful: The Carol King Musical” retains its magic in this, its fourth run in ...
Karen WeinsteinLos Angeles,
How you react to “Happy Days” at the Taper may depend on how you feel about revisiting absurdist theater. If you were around in the ‘60’s you probably saw “Happy Days,” along with “Krapp’s Last Tape” and “Waiting for ...
Josh BaxtSan Diego,
Sometimes, when you go to the theater, you want deep thoughts and pathos that slaps you repeatedly in the face. And sometimes you want campy, stupid fun. The Gods of Comedy is the latter. ...
Aaron KrauseMiami,
MIAMI — In the deeply unsettling, tragic, yet heartwarming, even life-affirming documentary play United Flight 232, plane crash survivor Clif Marshall speaks about the ordeal he endured. There we are – standing on top of an inverted ...
Emily S. MendelBerkeley,
“The Good Book’s” authors, Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson, creators of Berkeley Rep’s 2012 “An Iliad,” take on a colossal subject, one that may not be capable of mastery in one evening of theater. The lengthy, chock-filled production creatively ...
Aaron KrauseFort Lauderdale,
Dramamine is not one of the products for sale in the theater lobbies where the Broadway musical adaptation of Anastasia plays. But if you are prone to motion sickness or equilibrium ...
Emily S. MendelBerkeley,
“We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.’’ — Oscar Wilde A lot of what passes for entertainment ...
Lynne FriedmannSan Diego,
Sixty years ago, the Space Race that pitted the United States against the Soviet Union had all eyes focused on the heavens. At the same time, an equally contentious Earth-bound battle of wills took place ...
Emily S. MendelSan Francisco,
“This is Vanity Fair, and it is not a moral place. Nor is it often a merry one." It’s no easy trick to distill William Makepeace ...
