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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Smile, the play, turns out to be anything but smiley, as it portrays the complex relationships a young girl must maneuver through cultural layers far beyond what is asked of white girls […]
