GO-GO GET THIS ALBUM Head Over Heels is an exhilarating and seemingly improbable musical mash-up of Sir Philip Sidney's sixteenth-century work The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (libre…
SWEET AS PIE, FLAKY AS CRUST, OR BOTH? If the heat in the kitchen is getting you down, you may want to head on over to Hollywood, where the Broadway hit Waitress arrived last night for a lim…
A PIG WITH WINGS Variety critic Daniel Kimmel identified a thread running through Neil LaBute's work: “He is a misanthrope who assumes that only callous people who use and abuse others…
THE ACTORS SHINE IN AÂ CLOUDY PLAY Playwright Christy Hall comments about her play To Quiet the Quiet, "I am most interested in the complexities of the human condition," and in her work sh…
RUN The Rogue Machine is one of the best theatre companies in Los Angeles, producing some of the finest productions anywhere. Sadly, their latest effort Where the Great Ones Run wandered off…
A PLAYWRIGHT REBORN For some uncanny reason, sometimes you walk into a theatre filled with anticipation. Perhaps this occurred at the Mint Theatre because they were excavating a buried theat…
THEATER OF GOOD INTENTIONS No matter how worthy Civilian is, with its interviews of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, one cannot call this play effective theatre. There have been…
A MEETING OF THE MINDS Mark St. Germain based his play Freud's Last Session on a book by Armand M. Nicholi, Jr. entitled The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, S…