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 […]
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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. — […]