The King and I
Although The King and I isn’t a reference to the coronation of King Charles and his wayward spare, Harry, it is inspired by the true story upon which Margaret Landon […]
Barzee, Nakauchi. Photo by Jason Niedle.
Mason, Rorrer, Lam, Wright, Boek, Edemodi, Lane, Ferri. Photo by Jenny Graham.
The Pilot Who Crashed the Party
Paul Sand’s new play, THE PILOT WHO CRASHED THE PARTY, boasts an intriguing title. And the description, which hints at an homage/satire of drawing room dramas, conjures images of well-dressed […]
Zambito, Greaves. Photo by OddDog Pictures.
The Thin Place
Lucas Hnath is a playwright who resists easy categorization. His plays are so different in story, style, tone, and technique that one would assume several quite different writers authored them. […]
Grimes, Shald. Photo by David Sprague.
Heavenly Country
On Broadway, a new country-flavored musical called SHUCKED is currently in previews. Closer to home, the world premiere of HEAVENLY COUNTRY, a jukebox country-western musical, is running at the Two […]
O'Grady, Washington. Photo by Jerry Graham.
Picnic
“Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic,” this cleverly axiomatic phrase is attributed to comedy writer Jane Wagner. The 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Picnic, by William Inge, lends evidence to Ms. Wagner’s witticism. The […]
Mancasola, Liverman. Photo by Craig T. Matthew
Pelleas et Melisande
It is remarkable that Claude Debussy’s PELLEAS ET MELISANDE remains sui generis 121 years after the opera’s premiere. Despite aggressively modern works by Schoenberg, Tippett, Berio, and Glass, it remains, in its […]
Miller, Rodriguez. Photo by Ashley Erikson.
Calvin Berger
Audiences have long had a love affair with the dashing hero of Edmond Rostand’s CYRANO DE BERGERAC. Theatre creators also succumbed to the charms of the man with the generous […]
Meachem, Colclough. Photo by Cory Weaver.
Le Nozze Di Figaro
A show curtain for the current LA Opera production of Mozart’s comic masterpiece, LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (The Marriage of Figaro) prominently features Commedia del Arte characters. Was this an indication that […]
Shimerman. Photo courtesy Antaeus Theatre Company.
Masterclass: Shakespeare’s Rhetoric with Armin Shimerman
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 […]