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    Again, Samson, Rico. Photo courtesy Long Beach Shakespeare Company

    King Lear

    Ben Miles 4 March
    4 minutes

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    Miller, Rodriguez. Photo by Ashley Erikson.

    Calvin Berger

    Michael Van Duzer 2 March
    3 minutes

    Audiences have long had a love affair with the dashing hero of Edmond Rostand’s CYRANO DE BERGERAC. Theatre creators also succumbed to the charms of the man with the generous […]

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    Meachem, Colclough. Photo by Cory Weaver.

    Le Nozze Di Figaro

    Michael Van Duzer 23 February
    3 minutes

    A show curtain for the current LA Opera production of Mozart’s comic masterpiece, LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (The Marriage of Figaro) prominently features Commedia del Arte characters. Was this an indication that […]

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    Shimerman. Photo courtesy Antaeus Theatre Company.

    Masterclass: Shakespeare’s Rhetoric with Armin Shimerman

    Ben Miles 25 January
    5 minutes

    Acting is more than a talent, it is also an aesthetic technology. I had never looked at the art of the thespian in that way, not until I recently attended a […]

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    Photo credit Frank Ishman

    Twelve O’Clock Tales with Ava Gardner

    Ben Miles 18 January
    3 minutes

    Married to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra, and divorced from all three of them, Ava Gardner was fodder for 20th-century gossip columnists and a signature component of the Golden Age of […]

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    Photo by Martha Benedict

    Ercole Su’l Termondonte

    Michael Van Duzer 16 January
    3 minutes

    The always ambitious Pacific Opera Project (POP) is presenting the American premiere of Antonio Vivaldi’s ERCOLE SU’L TERMONDONTE (Hercules on the Thermodon) along with an interactive theatrical history lesson. The […]

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    Grant, O'Hara, Brophy. Photo by Jeff Lorch.

    Little Theatre

    Michael Van Duzer 27 December
    3 minutes

    For those of us who came of artistic age in Los Angeles during the 1980’s and 90’s, the CAST Theatre was a vibrant home to a wide range of plays […]

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    Bigley, Thomas. Photo courtesy Porters of Hellsgate.

    Porters of Hellsgate Tackle Shakespeare’s Last Play

    Leigh Kennicott 11 December
    2 minutes

    Sadly, the short run is over for this well-conceived rendition of a very messy play written (with John Fletcher) at the end of Shakespeare’s life, and produced, originally, at London’s […]

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    Kozika, Feliciana. Photo by Jeff Lorch.

    Smile Shows Its Effort From Inside Out

    Leigh Kennicott 5 December
    2 minutes

    Smile, the play, turns out to be anything but smiley, as it portrays the complex relationships a young girl must maneuver through cultural layers far beyond what is asked of white girls […]

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    Kerr, Lemire in A Clean Brush. Photo by Eric Keitel.

    Theatre 40 Runs Two Shows in Rep

    Leigh Kennicott 2 December
    4 minutes

    Always ambitious, Theatre 40 launched two plays in repertory, not only to provide more entertainment, but to accommodate its talented writers and performers.  First up, A Clean Brush marks a world premiere by […]

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