ORLANDERSMITH CAN SEEÂ FOREVER There is a timeless quality to stories about families, particularly families riddled with alcoholism, drug addiction, bitterness, hatred, sadness, and lost d…
HAS THE BLOOM WORN OFF THE LILY, OR IS IT ME? Dear Lily: I've adored you ever since you burst into my consciousness " and the nation's " way back in 1969 on Laugh-In. Who could forget your E…
COME BACK TO A NOISE WITHIN The current production of Come Back, Little Sheba at Pasadena's A Noise Within proves that William Inge's breakout 1950 Broadway hit is still relevant today. The …
GAY BOYS AND INDIANS A Nice Indian Boy, currently enjoying its world premiere production at East West Players, is a charming little comedy about love, marriage, culture clash and the shiftin…
A BLESSING FROM BLESSING Playwright Lee Blessing has done a gutsy thing. He puts himself in the head and heart of the mother of a ruthless African dictator who murders and tortures his compa…
BELOW THE FOLD Above the Fold, a new play making its debut at the Pasadena Playhouse, has two major flaws that result in an evening of uninspired theater: both a lack of credibility and comp…
MOUSE TRAP Flowers for Algernon has had many incarnations since it was first published as a short story in 1959 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: a novel, a telecast, a film (w…
THE X FACTOR How many times have we mused that we would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when ___________? That's exactly what playwright Kemp Powers has done in his One Night in Mi…