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    Hanson, Coty-Goines. Photo by Jermaine Alexander.

    The Great Lover: A French Classic at its Best

    Leigh Kennicott 26 October
    2 minutes

    Bill Ball would be proud.  That’s sort of an in-joke between us graduates of the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, who once underwent the rigorous training there. The connection, of […]

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    L-R: Shams, Theodore, Proctor, Sechrist, Anderson, DeMarco. Photo by Sheryl Aronson.

    Newly Renamed Mark Theatre Takes Off with Breathe

    Leigh Kennicott 26 October
    3 minutes

    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! […]

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    Towers-Rowles, Petrovic. Photo by Eric Keitel.

    We Owe It All to All These Women

    Leigh Kennicott 16 October
    2 minutes

    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 […]

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    Skylight Theatre Hosts a Different View of the Hero, Achilles

    Leigh Kennicott 2 September
    2 minutes

    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 […]

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    Klein. Photo by Jeff Lorch

    Reel to Reel Unspools the Interiority of a Marriage

    Leigh Kennicott 23 August
    3 minutes

    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 […]

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    Ybarra, Melville. Photo by Mike Ditz.

    Griffith Park Goes to the Devil with Independent Shakespeare Company’s Dr. Faustus

    Leigh Kennicott 18 August
    3 minutes

    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 […]

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