BEING A VIRGIN CAN BE ROCKY Best known for raucous audience participation at midnight screenings, Richard O'Brien's cult movie classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show began life on the London…
NOT YOUR MOTHER'S DARCY AND ELIZABETH South Coast Repertory's Pride and Prejudice, written for the stage by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan from Jane Austen's masterpiece, brings out a sid…
IDENTITY CRISIS In a Mumbai flat, Deepa Kirpalani (Lina Patel), who lost her husband two years earlier, lives under the strict Hindu rules of widowhood. She never leaves her home, wears all …
AMPHIBIANS MORE EVOLVED THAN HUMANS Theatre West's production of Edward Albee's Seascape is a study in contrasts. Things either work, and work beautifully, or are muddled and miss the ma…
A PUZZLE TO RELISH SOLVING As both theatergoer and theater writer, this reviewer is decidedly unenthusiastic about absurdist, avant-garde, or post-modern theatre. It's not so much the co…
SCIENCE, GOD, AND LOVE: BEGIN ARGUING Buried somewhere in the convoluted twists, turns and ramblings of playwright Cody Henderson's Wonderlust lives a great story waiting to be told. …
TOO MANY STONES, NOT ENOUGH POCKETS Marie Jones's Stones In His Pockets is one of those plays that separate the boys from the men. Fifteen characters that range in age, gender, accent, a…