153 stories by "Margaret Gray"
Even as I enjoyed Crown City Theatre's tuneful, compactly staged revival of the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical “Company," my mommy radar was on high alert: Who’s watching …
In 1986, when Luis Valdez’s play “I Don’t Have to Show You No Stinking Badges” premiered in Los Angeles, its portrait of an upwardly mobile Latino family in Monter…
If writers of the 20th century could be categorized by the war they lived through, today’s scribes might be grouped by the blockbuster movie that came out when they were about 7. The s…
Robin Weigert, who says she 'grew up psychoanalyst,' knows how the 'Other Desert Cities' character she plays at the Taper thinks. She impressed Jon Robin Baitz.On your way to meet actress Ro…
Could tap-dancing possibly be as fun as Rachel York makes it look? She and the cast of the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Tony-winning Broadway revival of “Anything Goes,&rdquo…
After centuries of repression by the phallocentric hegemony, the vagina has become very chatty. Now an acclaimed monologist, with a biography by Naomi Wolf out in hardback, it takes the epon…
In "Roma al final de la via" (Rome at the End of the Line) by the Tijuana playwright Daniel Serrano, two 7-year-old girls in a Mexican village decide to run away to Rome. Having neither tick…
The author's play about a black actress in the '30s comes to Geffen Playhouse with, star Sanaa Lathan says, still-relevant issues.You've probably never heard of the African American actress …
Meet the Macbeths, a charming, upwardly mobile couple grieving over the death of their only child.
At the Old Globe’s 2012 Shakespeare Festival, Adrian Noble is running “Inherit the Wind” in repertory with “Richard III” and “As You Like It” &mdash…
In "Earthbound," a new original musical by Skypilot Theatre Company receiving its world premiere at T.U. Studios, seven people remain on the space station Miami, which orbits the Earth.
Make sure you don’t drop acid before seeing Alan Ayckbourn’s “Woman in Mind” at the Sierra Madre Playhouse. You won't need it. The British playwright’s 1985 bla…
In 2010, the actor's then girlfriend and now wife, Vanessa Claire Smith, surprised him with a script about his idol, Buster Keaton. The play's a big hit now.If your boyfriend's birthday is c…
Apparently, spending the bulk of your time in Neverland really will stop you from growing up. Cathy Rigby won a Tony nomination for her performance as Peter Pan on Broadway in the 1990 reviv…
More than a decade after 9/11, most of us are pleasantly removed from the fear, paranoia and fanatical patriotism that ruled us in its wake. Was that really us, trolling for black-market …
Tony nominee Danny Burstein is nothing like his character in 'Follies,' Buddy Plummer. He'll perform 'The-God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me-Blues' at the awards show.There's a flicker of uncertainty…
I was going to refer to “It Is Done,” a play by Alex Goldberg currently running in a back room in Hollywood’s Pig ’N Whistle restaurant, as “site-specific,&rdqu…
At the peak of Richard Chamberlain’s thrillingly malevolent performance in “The Heiress,” the audience at the Pasadena Playhouse started hissing. If we had had tomatoes, we…
Danai Gurira’s new play, “The Convert,” set in the 1890s in what would later become Zimbabwe, tells the story of a young African woman, Jekesai (the stunning, graceful Pasc…
Thomas J. Misuraca, writer and librettist of Geeks! The Musical!, premiering at Write Act Repertory Theatre, is a total geek. Thomas J. Misuraca, writer and librettist of Geeks! The Music…
Ty Cobb still holds some of the records he set while playing for the Detroit Tigers (1905-26), including an unofficial one: "the dirtiest player of all time."Ty Cobb still holds some of the …
For every visionary who endures mockery and adversity to realize his or her dreams, millions of other visionaries endure mockery and then go back to their day jobs.For every visionary who en…
A beautiful young writer is torn between two lovers: the steady, dull provider and the flighty soul mate. Anais Nin, right?A beautiful young writer is torn between two lovers: the steady, du…
Here's an idea for a reality show set right in your backyard: Who can watch "Old Wicked Songs" at the Colony Theatre without falling in love with John Towey?Here's an idea for a reality show…
This statuesque knockout, as fresh-faced as the young Elizabeth Taylor, is supposed to be the faded Madame Ranevskaya?This statuesque knockout, as fresh-faced as the young Elizabeth Taylor, …
