Cosi Fan Tutte
I have never experienced being targeted for so much online advertising with any opera production than I was with than the COSI FAN TUTTE currently playing at LA Opera. Having never watched LOVE […]
Photo by Cory Weaver.
Altman, Kellogg. Photo by Nile Hawker.
Triumph of Love is a Delight: An 18th Century French comedy, adapted to the 21st, comically highlights an eternal contradiction in human nature.
The play by Pierre de Marivaux was first performed in Paris in 1732, ran for six performances and folded. Perhaps playgoers were outraged at the character, Léonide, a young woman calculatedly […]
Almedilla, Foy. Photo by Jason Williams
A Diva and Three Eager Students: What Could Go Wrong
Watching Joan Almedilla’s performance as Maria Callas in Terrance McNally’s Master Class at Sierra Madre Playhouse’s newly renovated theatre made me realize how I have been missing seeing opera productions, especially those […]
Anthony, Landis, Kress, Davis, Kent. Center Shearer. Photo by Doug Engalla.
The Curious Savage: Another Warm and Funny Comedy at Group Rep
As the ads say, “in the horse and buggy days,” the first play I ever saw in high school was The Curious Savage. Now keep the image of a bunch of teenagers […]
Mullen, Sidell, Lock, Ball, Deford. Photo courtesy Theatre Forty.
Glorious Two-fer: Graystone Mansion and Jane Austen Live!
For a real treat, there is nothing like visiting the Doheny Family’s ancestral Greystone Mansion and being treated to a delicious send-up of all six of Jane Austen’s novels, all […]
O'Quinn, Norwood. Photo credit Theatre Forty
An LA Story If Ever There Was One
The fires may deter us, but we will always have real estate on our minds in Southern California, especially now. So, it is indeed timely to consider the issues that playwright […]