Director Melissa Chalsma celebrates the diversity of Elizabethan playwrights by unearthing Francis Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Beaumont, along with his co-writer John Fletcher, took the reins of Shakespeare’s company […]
I can’t stop raving about the latest production of Newsies, now lighting up the BofA Performing Arts Center in Thousand Oaks. There are only five more performances, ending on Sunday, July 24, […]
Dismay. Anger. Depression. Confusion. These were some of the emotions we all had when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 50-year-old precedent cementing the right to abortion in the […]
This is the first production in two years for the venerable Victory Theatre, and it has chosen to present a bombshell of a dilemma with A Terminal Event by Richard Willett. This […]
Theatre 40 is on a roll. Each play they produce is funnier than the last, and their latest, The Play’s The Thing, is no exception. Cleverly directed by Melanie McQueen, the nearly 100–year old […]
I’ve been musing about Murray Mednick’s new play since I saw it. It is less a narrative and more of a meditation on holocausts, whether present or future, that reflects […]
