This incendiary play is as timely as today’s headlines, so imagine my surprise when I learned that it is actually a revival, originally produced here in Los Angeles in 2015! […]
Theatre Forty has done us all a great favor in staging All These Women, a meticulously researched play by Melanie MacQueen, who also directs. After all, it is well known that the fight […]
It isn’t often that a play as outwardly straight forward as this one could be thought about as an ongoing daytime TV series, but my immediate impulse when I watched Achilles […]
Revelations about marriage have been the grist for drama since the door slammed in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. But none have revealed quite the same journey as John Kolvenbach’s innovative approach, with […]
Melissa Chalsma, director of this rendition of Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus, has a lot of fun taking an Elizabethan-era play that is basically a debate between good and evil (represented by […]
Theatre Forty hits another home run with a sure-fire dramady set in a senior living facility whose residents have nicknamed their common room “The Algonquin” for reasons that become clear […]
