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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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    Webster, Stumman, Lloyd, Kemmet. Photo by Eric Keitel.

    What Les Miserables Didn’t Tell You About the French Revolution

    Leigh Kennicott 4 June
    3 minutes

    Theatre 40 has been around LA’s theatre scene as long as I have.  The group routinely combines adventurous offerings with copious opportunities for its members to stretch their wings. Its latest […]

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    Morales, Rabb, Elliott, and THE BOOK. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

    Shakespeare Keeps Giving at A Noise Within

    Leigh Kennicott 20 May
    3 minutes

    Few of us remember that, in the early 19th Century, this vast country was settled with the help of only two books…the Bible and Shakespeare’s collected works.  By mid-Century, the two had […]

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    Bigley, Thomas. Photo courtesy Porters of Hellsgate.

    Porters of Hellsgate Tackle Shakespeare’s Last Play

    Leigh Kennicott 11 December
    2 minutes

    Sadly, the short run is over for this well-conceived rendition of a very messy play written (with John Fletcher) at the end of Shakespeare’s life, and produced, originally, at London’s […]

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