9 stories by "John Topping"
EVEN WITH A FEW CRACKS, THIS HOLIDAY CHESTNUT STILL DELIGHTS It is a testament to the vision of Robert Joffrey that his 1987 version of Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky's perennial ballet The Nutcr…
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WAR, BUT NO PEACE John Andert so captivates the audience in Sinan Ünel's play A Mad Person's Chronicle of a Miserable Marriage that you don't want the play to end. Whether he is the d…
THE REALLY BIGGIE TITTY COMMITTEE What's the first thing that comes to mind when you're told that you're going to see a show with two women (Emma Powell and Mandi Lodge) who are going to dis…
Our July 18, 1958 issue, from back before we existed.
GETTING OVER RACISM 101 For a show with a title as dangerous as Nigger Wetback Chink " an evening of confronting racism with comedy, playing this month at the Barnsdall Gallery Theater " it …
SOME MIGHTY IMPRESSIVE VOICES The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles (GMCLA) are presenting A Mighty Voice, and there is only one performance left to attend. A dazzlingly well-written…
I’M A CY-CLOOOOOOPS One of Stage and Cinema’s favorite Los Angeles Theatre Companies, Psittacus Productions, has announced that Cyclops: A Rock Opera will be moving to the Carrie…
BEYOND NEAT TRICKS When Neil deGrasse Tyson, the host of the video magazine NOVA scienceNOW, was a guest on The Daily Show recently, Jon Stewart complimented him for finally “making sc…