Acting is more than a talent, it is also an aesthetic technology. I had never looked at the art of the thespian in that way, not until I recently attended a […]
Married to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra, and divorced from all three of them, Ava Gardner was fodder for 20th-century gossip columnists and a signature component of the Golden Age of […]
The always ambitious Pacific Opera Project (POP) is presenting the American premiere of Antonio Vivaldi’s ERCOLE SU’L TERMONDONTE (Hercules on the Thermodon) along with an interactive theatrical history lesson. The […]
For those of us who came of artistic age in Los Angeles during the 1980’s and 90’s, the CAST Theatre was a vibrant home to a wide range of plays […]
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 […]
Always ambitious, Theatre 40 launched two plays in repertory, not only to provide more entertainment, but to accommodate its talented writers and performers. First up, A Clean Brush marks a world premiere by […]
After more than 100 years, few remember that Henrik Ibsen’s play Ghosts received its first production, not in his native Scandinavia, but in the United States. In the 1880s, the […]
Though on the cover of the playbill for The Secret Comedy of Women — currently being performed at the Huntington Beach Library Theater through October 16 — it says “Girls Only,” this show is […]
Playwright Jeff Gould hits a funny nerve again with his latest, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Divorce. Sky Pilot Theatre Company delivers this confection with an even-handed production, helmed […]
