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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Los Angeles Theater Review: OVO (Cirque du Soleil) by Jason Rohrer

IF THIS IS THE CIRCUS, WHERE’S MY BREAD? In 1992, Guy Laliberté gentrified the big top with Saltimbanco, offering pure spectacle at Wagnerian prices, and in the process conflating art…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:29PM
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Los Angeles Theater Review: TROILUS AND CRESSIDA (Porters of Hellsgate) by Jason Rohrer

WARLIKE FROTTAGE The Porters of Hellsgate’s production of Shakespeare’s Trojan War essay, Troilus and Cressida, begins promisingly.  A shifting tableau establishes characters an…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:11PM
Friday, October 7, 2011

Regional Theater Review: HOW THE WORLD BEGAN (South Coast Rep) by Jason Rohrer

UNINTELLIGENT DESIGN When a writer writes, sometimes the heavens open up; but more frequently, nothing opens except the mouth.  The difference between what we wish to say and what gets said…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:04PM