Thursday, June 4, 2020
Miranda’s rap. Rylance’s poems. Jackman’s pelvis. And a brassy reunion for Bea Arthur and Angela Lansbury. Now set your clock for “Turkey Lurkey Time.”
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The show about race, sex and trauma didn’t earn back its costs, but did demonstrate that audiences would turn out to see, and argue about, risky material.
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Shows that defied categorization offered a stark choice: Escape an angry world, or face up to its travails. Beyond Broadway, writers explored race, inequality and addiction.
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Thursday, January 10, 2019
Twenty more plays to read before college
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Visionary stylist or one-trick pony? With “Network” on Broadway and “All About Eve” on the horizon, the multimedia-mad stage director is ready for his close-up.
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Damien Chazelle’s first movie since “La La Land” was mostly loved by critics. Audiences were less impressed.
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They are often Broadway sensations, but jukebox musicals rarely get good reviews. We invited our critics to stop snarking and tell us what they want.
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Majority rule (mostly). One play per playwright. How we put together the 25 Plays list, and a bid to remember notable writers and favorite works that missed the cut.
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Queens of Syria, an adaptation of Euripides’ antiwar tragedy The Trojan Women, will visit London, Liverpool and EdinburghFor Sham, who fled Syria with her family, life in Damascus before t…
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An Italian court last week upheld a 2014 appeal won by the dancer and ordered the theater to pay her back wages from her firing in February 2012 until she won that appeal.
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It’s like walking into an abandoned house where everything’s been left the way it was.
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Happy families, Tolstoy mused, are all alike — it's the messy, miserable ones we love to watch. So are great dramas born, from “King Lear” through “Long Day's Journey…
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A look at what Footlights has to say for April, What do you call it when a 6th grade hall monitor goes up to the smallest 4th grader and “says get off the playground!”? We call it bullyi…
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Productions Raises Women’s Voices in “Properties of Silence” “I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you’d prefer to imagine me.” ― Juana Inés de …
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:24PMSunday, January 18, 2015
Elizabeth Stevens interviews Alex Torra about THE SINCERITY PROJECT.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:30PMFriday, January 9, 2015
When people ask, “What’s your favorite restaurant?” I usually want to know, in which category? If it’s Indian, the answer is ANGARA in Torrance (matched, perhaps, by Jaipur in West L…
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:49PMAfter rounding up at least four Chinese food fans, which shouldn’t be too difficult, head for DRAGON STREET in North Hollywood. Unprepossessing is a kind word for the interior, whose booth…
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:28PMTheatre was born the moment one being tried to express a story to another. It’s as simple as that. Given that every culture anywhere in this world has some form of theatre, it can easily…
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:16PMWednesday, November 26, 2014
24th Street Theatre Answers the Question: What is Theatre? It all started with a simple question from an inquisitive young boy strolling past the open doors of a converted 1928 carriage hous…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:03PMThe breadth of human creation is a derivative of prior moments. Art, all human knowledge is built upon a foundation originally started before the dawn of man and added to by each subsequent …
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:01PMFor those that want to know how life changes as you gain seniority, let me offer this perspective. Mostly it doesn’t. But what does happen is you, or me in this case, pause for reflection …
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:59PMThose of you who have tried Cuban food, know that it’s not spicy but mildly and cleverly seasoned involving citrus juices in marinades etc. Why not try it at EL RINCON CRIOLLO, where a sma…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:57PMIt’s all Greek to you, when you visit GEORGE’S GREEK CAFÉ, one of the few restaurants with authentic, home-style cooking and decent prices, owned for decades, by the Loizides Family. Th…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:53PMAcross the Freeway from Universal City is CALIFORNIA CANTEEN, a misnomer which might imply a veggieburger/hot dog counter. But, it’s actually a charming French bistro with a tempting menu …
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:50PMFriday, August 29, 2014
Critic’s Choice! “Dazzling!” LA Times. “Joyous!” Broadway World. The LA Premiere of THE BROTHERS SIZE by Tarell Alvin McCraney, starring Gilbert Glenn Brown, Ma…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:36PMTuesday, August 5, 2014
A Timely Portrayal: Pamela Daly as Margaret Sanger Timing is everything. Acting teacher and professional veteran of film/TV, Pamela Daly, appreciates the divisive climate as she prepares to …
SOURCE: Footlights at 03:52PMTHE DINING SCENE BY INGRID WILMOT A theatre outing should begin by avoiding all chopping, stirring and even microwaving but with a pleasant, relaxing dinner. Here are some suggestions, each …
SOURCE: Footlights at 03:07PMFor more than a century, Theatre as an institution has been facing a challenge of audience interest. While theatre along with sports were the principal sources of popular public entertainmen…
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Visionary Man – Los Angeles Musical. “Say Amen” from the hit musical now running at The Hudson Theatres. TICKETS/INFO: www.plays411.com/visionary Promo Code: DEAL50 = 50% o…
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