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    Rogers, Walker, Langford. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

    A Banned Book Gets a New Look at A Noise Within

    Leigh Kennicott 15 September
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    In Southern California, not everyone has to confront racism in the same way as manifested in the South during the late 60s and early 70s.  Back then, Toni Morrison wrote about […]

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    Soo, Messmer. Photo courtesy Skylight Theatre.

    Hungry Ghost Becomes the Latest Inhabitant of Skylight Theatre

    Leigh Kennicott 5 September
    2 minutes

    Bringing the Skylight’s series featuring women playwrights and directors to a close, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s Hungry Ghost may be the most densely packed, metaphorical drama presented this year. Dring tells the tale […]

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    Abruzzo, Chase, Leonard. Photo by Alex Nehar.

    A Mesmerizing “View” at Ruskin Group Theatre

    Leigh Kennicott 25 August
    3 minutes

    Almost everyone knows about Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, that exposes the pursuit of an American Dream with tragic consequences.  But fewer people know how much Miller was intrigued by […]

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    Hull, Sturgis, LaMadrid, Romero. Photo by Cooper Bates.

    Crabs in a Bucket Introduces Us to Ourselves at Echo Theatre Company

    Leigh Kennicott 2 August
    2 minutes

    What a metaphor for life! Bernardo Cubria simmers it down to a shucking bucket of crabs, all struggling to get up and out, no matter at whose (or whats’) expense.  Sound […]

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    Weidner, Sprik, Marshall, Wallinger. Photo by Ian Flanders.

    Queen Margaret Reigns in Theatricum’s War of the Roses

    Leigh Kennicott 30 July
    2 minutes

    What an ingenious move, to reposition Shakespeare’s History Plays to feature a woman who might seem to simply sit on the sidelines while the men do all the jockeying for […]

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    Ashanti, Ruff, Hamilton, Miller. Photo by Mike Palma.

    In Stew, Something’s Wrong in Mama’s Kitchen

    Leigh Kennicott 23 July
    2 minutes

    With Stew, a new play at the Pasadena Playhouse, playwright Zora Howard draws on now-familiar tropes (introduced by August Wilson) to reveal mysteries concealed in a middle-class family in upstate, New […]

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    The Pitch is a Hidden Gem at the New Madnani Theatre

    Leigh Kennicott 18 July
    2 minutes

    Prepare to be engaged and surprised all along the way at The Pitch, a play by Tom Alper who also has the starring role.  Alper plays a sad-sack sort of a character, a […]

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    Hood, Gaw, Holt. Photo by Jenny Graham.

    Looking for Gandersheim at the Skylight Theatre

    Leigh Kennicott 25 June
    3 minutes

    If you’re reading this now, you’ve missed the run of this ground-breaking play at the Skylight Theatre.  I, too, almost missed it:  only through a stroke of luck did I catch it […]

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    Haile, Richards, Ismail. Photo credit Gustavo Leon.

    Palmares Lives!

    Leigh Kennicott 24 June
    2 minutes

    Palmares is a wonder of sight and sound with a history lesson thrown in. Above all, as produced by the Brazil Brazil Cultural Center at LA’s Fringe Festival, the almost mythological […]

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    One Family’s Escape from Implacable Latin America

    Leigh Kennicott 14 June
    2 minutes

    One of the features of Los Angeles’ sprawling Fringe Festival is finding important plays tucked among the sea of one-person shows. Eduardo Vega’s Octopus in its Own Ink is such a find.  To […]

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