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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
