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    Attention Must Be Paid to a Man of No Importance

    Leigh Kennicott 20 May
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    It’s wonderful to find such an expert iteration of an exuberant musical right in our midst.  The joy of being an Angeleno, after all, is the ability to sample a wide […]

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    Pregoni, Nagle, Mammana. Photo by Philip Pirolo

    Sicily in 1936: Between the Gilded Age and Mussolini

    Leigh Kennicott 18 May
    2 minutes

    I’m a big fan of Tom Jacobson’s playwriting because he always seems to find a way to illuminate current agonies with past events in a reassuring way, letting audiences know […]

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    A Little Known Tennessee Williams Play Gets a New Assessment

    Leigh Kennicott 14 May
    3 minutes

    Tennessee Williams just couldn’t leave Blanche alone!  In his 1968 rendering In The Bar of a Tokyo Hotel Miriam (Susan Priver), the unhappy wife of an alcoholic painter, dawdles her life away […]

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    Gillie, Rosser, Lawson, Hanson. Photo by Jermaine Alexander.

    Last Night at Mikell’s for Those of Us Who Missed the 50s

    Leigh Kennicott 30 April
    2 minutes

    The names James Baldwin, Miles Davis, and Maya Angelou loom large in our cultural memory, because they were among the vanguard of Black artists who began to thrive in the […]

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    Trobec, Burkhart. Photo by Kelsey Dougherty.

    How to Combat Male Loneliness? Find a Buddy.

    Leigh Kennicott 20 April
    2 minutes

    Buddies, by the ever-inventive Ben Abbott,  addresses the much-talked about but seldom tackled dilemma that married men have finding “bros” to bond with, creating an epidemic of emotionally isolated males.  In this world […]

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    Almedilla, Foy. Photo by Jason Williams

    A Diva and Three Eager Students: What Could Go Wrong

    Leigh Kennicott 3 March
    2 minutes

    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 […]

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