The Pitch is a Hidden Gem at the New Madnani Theatre
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 […]
Hood, Gaw, Holt. Photo by Jenny Graham.
Looking for Gandersheim at the Skylight Theatre
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 […]
Haile, Richards, Ismail. Photo credit Gustavo Leon.
Palmares Lives!
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 Family’s Escape from Implacable Latin America
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 […]
Cast at the McCadden
Gunfight at the Not-So-OK Saloon
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 […]
Lemmon, Maschek, Morgan, Jay, Fishman. Photo by Keira Wight.
Back Porch
Picnic is a play by esteemed playwright William Inge. Directed by Joshua Logan, it premiered in 1953 at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre, running for 477 performances and winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In […]