Lynne FriedmannSan Diego,
Are you impatient for the completion of the California high-speed rail line or eager for the return of supersonic air travel? While you're waiting, pack your bags and hold on to your hat as punctilious, persnickety, pedantic Phileas Fogg takes ...
Lynne FriedmannSan Diego,
Marriage is not to be entered into lightly when the groom is England's King Henry VIII.
The West Coast Premiere of "The Last Wife" offers a contemporary retelling of Henry's sixth (and final) wife, Katherine Parr, and how ...
Lewis WhittingtonPhiladelphia,
A new production of Michael Frayn's Tony Award winning play "Copenhagen" is on an extended run at the Lantern Theater. Clocking in at over two and a half hours, this play revels in its intellectual density. Past the heady subject ...
Nancy S. BishopChicago,
As if to prove you can out-Ibsen Ibsen, playwright Brett Neveu has taken Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play, "An Enemy of the People, "and transmogrified it into a contemporary setting. Neveu transplants a scandal surrounding the water flowing through the Municipal ...
Nancy S. BishopChicago,
Charles Newell’s production of Arthur Miller’s "All My Sons" at Court Theatre is an emotionally wrenching tragedy. Secrets and lies that have been hidden for years are gradually teased out. Not until the last few minutes do you understand ...
David E. MorenoSan Francisco,
“Capitalism excels at innovation but fails at maintenance.”
There is something queer about “Sink”, a political purge in heels, a ritualized communal healing, a street-smart shamanic journey. Something remarkable about how its vague threads, three distinct segments, loosely ...
A 77-year-old Lillian Hellman play sounds the alarm (again).
Emily S. MendelBerkeley,
Lillian Hellman (1905 –1984), celebrated author and left-wing political activist, would be both pleased and saddened that her 1940 play is being applauded across the country 77 years after it was written — pleased, of course, that her ...
Emily S. MendelBerkeley,
TheatreFirst has commissioned 12 enlivening and exhilarating short plays by outstanding playwrights that are designed to provoke thought, discussion and action. All the pieces in “Participants” share the didactic theme of exploring society’s reaction to our current social and political ...
Emily S. MendelBerkeley,
While many theatre companies put on undemanding feel-good musical shows for the holidays, leave it to Shotgun Players to produce the lauded “Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets,” an avant-garde expressionist take on a German folktale ...
Karen WeinsteinLos Angeles,
Sometimes a pot shot is just too easy. Sometimes it lands right on the bull’s eye. “Something Rotten,” the title of the new musical at the Ahmanson, offers a quiver full of justifications for a critic to lay into it. ...
