The Hall of Final Ruin: What a Kick-off for Ophelia’s Jump
Thank goodness, I took a course in Southwestern Mystery and Myth in graduate school, or I would have no idea what was going on in Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos’ The Hall of Final […]
Puppeteer Curtin, Gertrude the Goose, Cox. Photo by Cooper Bates.
The 24th Street Theatre is Back with Rapunzel Alone
Almost everyone remembers the nursery rhyme, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair.” But what would happen if Rapunzel had to sheer off her braids because she had head lice? So begins […]
Lucy and Desi
With Aaron Sorkin’s drama exploring one challenging week in the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos and the Amy Poehler directed documentary, Lucy and Desi (both currently streaming on Amazon Prime), the breakthrough […]
Foreground Dixon. Rear: Uribes, Su, Perkins, Arauz, Ascensio. Photo by Jenny Graham.
It’s Enough to Make a Person Run for Office
After one of the opening performances of Detained at the Fountain Theatre last week, one of the audience members turned to her friend and said, “All they had to do was follow […]
Manuel-Miranda
Hamilton
“A Bastard Immigrant, son of a whore” — this is the unflattering but accurate description of one of this country’s most brilliant founders, Alexander Hamilton, who became the nation’s first […]
Hicks, Everts. Photo by Jenny Graham.
Singing Revolution Has a Lesson for Us Today
How fitting that Singing Revolution: the Musical, onstage at the Broadwater in Hollywood, appears as the world holds its collective breath while Vladimir Putin plays cat and mouse with Ukraine, once part […]
Gil, Pevec, Zabilka. Photo credit Veronica Slavin.
Something Rotten: A Tale of Two Reviews
Something Rotten is a quintessential musical, reminiscent of the glory days about, of all people, Shakespeare, playing at Thousand Oaks’ massive Kavli Theatre in the BofA Performing Arts Center for the […]
We Need To Talk About Cosby
We Need to Talk About Cosby is a four-part docuseries directed by W. Kamau Bell (who also proves to be a probing and effective interviewer); it’s currently streaming on Showtime. Early […]
Damante, Eisenerg, David. Photo by Eric Kettle.
: Theatre 40 launches a brave Death with Benefits
If you loved Arsenic and Old Lace, you’ll recognize the similarities to John Strysik’s new play, Death, With Benefits. One can see the bare bones of an hilarious romp in Strysik’s comedy, but, […]
Reframed: Marilyn Monroe
It’s too easy to characterize women performers as sex objects rather than talented, charismatic people. Handsome men — such as Clark Gable, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Tom Selleck, Brad Pitt, etc. — […]