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 […]
