Sunday, April 19, 2015
Last year marked the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I — a hellish anniversary, to be sure, but one that couldn't go unmarked. Observe how the geopolitical consequences of that…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:25PMThursday, April 16, 2015
Anna Deavere Smith, whose documentary theater offerings have investigated the Rodney King riots ("Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992") and the crisis in U.S. healthcare ("Let Me Down Easy"), among …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:45PMWednesday, April 15, 2015
Critic's Notebook on the Broadway revivals of 'The Heidi Chronicles' and 'Skylight,' -- in which Elisabeth Moss and Carey Mulligan make politics personal
SOURCE: fw.to at 10:33AMThere's a moment in the new Broadway revival of Wendy Wasserstein's "The Heidi Chronicles" when Heidi, the art historian holding fast to her liberated ideals while wrestling with loneliness,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:30AMSunday, April 12, 2015
An appreciation of theatrical trailblazer Judith Malina
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:42PMHad Judith Malina never existed, the 1960s would surely have had to invent her. Yet it was Malina, a diminutive, German-born, American theater provocateur of immense boldness, recklessness, …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:19PMThursday, April 9, 2015
As Thomas Cromwell, the Machiavellian mastermind behind Henry VIII, Ben Miles surveys the comings and goings at court with a watchful reserve that shifts imperceptibly into murderous stealth.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:20PMWednesday, April 8, 2015
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Of all the possible Shakespearean sequels, "Macbeth II" seems among the least likely.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:15AMSunday, March 29, 2015
SAN DIEGO — God reputedly made the world in seven days, but that seems lazy by Mary Zimmerman's standards. She needs only a few seconds and some billowing fabric to conjure the four elemen…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:10PMFriday, March 27, 2015
Carey Perloff talks about the challenges confronting the American theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:39PMCarey Perloff, now in her 23rd season as artistic director of San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater, doesn't mince words when talking about the challenges confronting the American th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PMWednesday, March 25, 2015
In the annals of dysfunctional-family drama, Charlotte Miller's "Thieves" isn't likely to find a lasting place, though the producers might want to consider posting the following warning in t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:03PMMonday, March 23, 2015
It's always a delight to encounter the disputatious wit of George Bernard Shaw, a playwright who thought comedy was at its fizzy best when ideas were allowed to collide in the service of pub…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:14PMThursday, March 19, 2015
Everything changes in this world — values, culture, technology, fashion — but the power of Cinderella seems weirdly impervious to time.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:47PMMonday, March 16, 2015
Images of Patricia Highsmith in her later years suggest that Linda Hunt might be a suitable choice to take on the role of the author of "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and other savage tales of ph…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:30AMThursday, March 12, 2015
Barbara Cook graced the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, and while the singer wasn’t in tiptop form — she needed a cane to walk on stage, sang from a wheelchai…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:35AMTuesday, March 10, 2015
Theatergoing can be such a yawning routine — park, sit, clap, race home like a lunatic.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:55PMSunday, March 8, 2015
Before announcing the winner for lead actress at the 1986 Academy Awards, F. Murray Abraham, elated that the recipient was his stage friend Geraldine Page, exclaimed, "I consider this woman …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00PMFriday, March 6, 2015
The Founding Fathers famously had a way with words, but as reincarnated in Lin-Manuel Miranda's sensational musical "Hamilton," they can now bust a rhyme with the legendary MCs.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:00PMThursday, March 5, 2015
It's the pesky little things that make up Larry David's infinitely expandable comic universe. All those petty grievances and minor disputes, the slights and slips, the miscues and forced apo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:20PMTuesday, February 24, 2015
Nathan Englander's short story, "The Twenty-Seventh Man," from his debut collection, "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges," is so impeccably pulled off, so beautifully composed in the spirit …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMSunday, February 22, 2015
Arthur Miller's "The Price" is an old-fashioned play that takes a fair amount of time to get going, but when it does — midway through the second act — it explodes with the thunderous mor…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:13PMFriday, February 20, 2015
Seismic tremors have been rocking the Los Angeles theater community after a proposal was floated by the Actors’ Equity Assn. regarding the 99-Seat Plan. A bureaucratic process is underway …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:59PMWednesday, February 18, 2015
It has become something of a commonplace since Hamlet first uttered the precept that the purpose of acting is "to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMFriday, February 13, 2015
Seated in the living room of his newly built architectural jewel of a home in Westwood, Alan Mandell had a confession to make.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMThursday, February 12, 2015
The decrepit state of Tommy's room, with its piles of rubbish and mildewy towels thrown all over the place, is a mirror into his life. Estranged from his wife, he has been renting a room in …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:25PMMonday, February 9, 2015
Darrell Hammond is dressed sharply in all black for "The Darrell Hammond Project," the world-premiere stage adaptation of his recovery memoir, "God, If You're Not Up There …" It's not exac…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45PMThursday, February 5, 2015
It's hard to imagine Culture Clash's "Chavez Ravine: An L.A. Revival" receiving a more handsome production than the one directed by Lisa Peterson at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, a retooled vers…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:01PMNo one would accuse Conor McPherson of going soft. As Ireland's preeminent playwright, he is renowned for his bruising, binge-drinking, invective-spewing immorality tales.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:30PMTuesday, February 3, 2015
Now 80, Dame Edna's alter ego Barry Humphries has decided to bring her theatrical globe-trotting to an end with 'Dame Edna's Glorious Goodbye: The Farewell Tour,' which began two years ago i…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:51PM 
