Fritz Coleman: Live at the El Portal
What do you do after you’ve been a highly acclaimed weatherman in the hottest media market in the country? You might think that person would ferret out some south sea island […]
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Few, Guillory. Photo by Josh Estes.
Too Talented, Too Women, Too Much Talented Tenth
Richard Wesley’s nail-bitting new play is less a “play,” and more of an immersion into the life of Bernard (Nic Few), the title character, as he climbs the ladder of […]
Rogers, Walker, Langford. Photo by Craig Schwartz.
A Banned Book Gets a New Look at A Noise Within
In Southern California, not everyone has to confront racism in the same way as manifested in the South during the late 60s and early 70s. Back then, Toni Morrison wrote about […]
Soo, Messmer. Photo courtesy Skylight Theatre.
Hungry Ghost Becomes the Latest Inhabitant of Skylight Theatre
Bringing the Skylight’s series featuring women playwrights and directors to a close, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s Hungry Ghost may be the most densely packed, metaphorical drama presented this year. Dring tells the tale […]
Kurtz, Priver. Photo vy Kayte Deioma.
A Slight Ache
A Slight Ache is a play written by the late Nobel prize-winning British playwright Harold Pinter. It was originally penned in 1958 and premiered as a radio play in 1959, prior to its initial stage production. […]
Abruzzo, Chase, Leonard. Photo by Alex Nehar.
A Mesmerizing “View” at Ruskin Group Theatre
Almost everyone knows about Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, that exposes the pursuit of an American Dream with tragic consequences. But fewer people know how much Miller was intrigued by […]