With Stew, a new play at the Pasadena Playhouse, playwright Zora Howard draws on now-familiar tropes (introduced by August Wilson) to reveal mysteries concealed in a middle-class family in upstate, New […]
Prepare to be engaged and surprised all along the way at The Pitch, a play by Tom Alper who also has the starring role. Alper plays a sad-sack sort of a character, a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gilbert and Sullivan were the premiere purveyors of comic opera in the second half of the Nineteenth Century. (Jacques Offenbach was really their only rival). Despite, or perhaps because of […]
