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    Goldwait, Lopez, Kim, Madriaga, Sweet. Photo by Francisco Hermosillo III.

    The Bauhaus Project Shows How Past is Prologue

    Leigh Kennicott 9 August
    3 minutes

    ”I hate art history,” declares one student in a remedial program at a fictional art school reminiscent of our own Art Center in Pasadena.  In Tom Jacobson’s encyclopedic The Bauhaus Project, […]

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    Morrow. Photo by Alex Neher.

    The Substance of Fire–A Penetrating Portrait of a Holocaust Survivor

    Leigh Kennicott 19 July
    2 minutes

    The first thing Rob Morrow said, relaxing after an opening weekend performance, was that Jon Robin Baitz was only  27 when he wrote The Substance of Fire.  He should know: the two were […]

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    Renner, Pourvasei. Photo by Phil Cass.

    The Spy Who Went Into Rehab is a Spy Spoof with a Soft Heart

    Leigh Kennicott 27 June
    2 minutes

    And now, for something completely different!  I hadn’t been to the west-side’s Pacific Resident Theatre for some time, but last weekend I was delighted to find their theatre spaces humming with […]

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    Brenda James. Photo courtesy Group Rep.

    Group Rep Unleashes Madcap Hijinks in this Beloved Classic Comedy

    Leigh Kennicott 8 June
    3 minutes

    The Group Rep roars into summer with the beloved “You Can’t Take It With You,” a madcap comedy that has been entertaining folks on Broadway, in Repertory theatres, and at […]

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    Strang, Britton. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

    What to Make of the World Today? Just Ask G.B. Shaw

    Leigh Kennicott 28 May
    3 minutes

    Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw might be considered a chestnut written more than 100 years ago, except for the fresh production the play is receiving from A Noise Within.  It represents just […]

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    Photo by Grettel Cortes Photography

    Ghost Waltz at LATC Reclaims an Important Heritage

    Leigh Kennicott 17 May
    2 minutes

    Oliver Mayer’s Ghost Waltz relays the true story of a “lost” composer, Juventino Rosas, through his interactions with “Nightingale,’ a popular opera star of the time and, at the 1893 Worlds Fair, […]

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