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You stop remembering the past. You stop imagining the future. You stop just to breathe. A pause. In that breath comes the perfume of the narcissus and hyacinths. Next week, it will be gone, …
I was hired in 2014 as Executive Director to bring some kind of meaningful change to what was, even then, a calcified operation. I resigned at the end of 2018 for all kinds of reasons, the p…
Sometimes I hit a combination of notes in a prelude " a combination so enticing, I have to stop and say, oh, that's really nice. It's like walking in my local meadow when the sun is melting …
The question is, in some ways, a question of how to survive during cultural climate change: In the midst of a tempest, do you stake your survival on the smaller rafts that have demonstrated …
MarchReviewed by Dana MartinLos Angeles LGBT Center and Playwrights' ArenaThrough November 15thLA's LGBT Center and Playwrights' Area have gone (COVID compliantly) rogue by staging high stak…
The death tally from this virus now exceeds 210,000 Americans. That's if we believe the official numbers. And, frankly, in October, 2020, why should we?
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Zoom is responsible for "the death of the pause" says performer-playwright Morgan Smalley. "Whenever there's a pause, everyone thinks their Internet has gone out."
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"With similar disillusion over the disconnect between cause and effect, between reason and policy, and like so many others, I've cultivated what could be called a Covid garden of fruits and …
"These plays that we do, these shows are like the sands of my life. I can track my life according to the shows I did and when I did them and who I did them with, and the thousands of people …
"Even through the big recession of 2008 and 9/11 we were all wondering if life would go on, and it did change, and still went on. We are resilient as a tribe. . . Old theater couples are st…
"We closed before we opened." Ormeny says. "It's the first time in 50 years for me that I haven't opened the show. The set was up, we were going into dress rehearsals, we were ready to go. …
"Maybe it sounds a little Pollyannish," Sandee says, "but our approach is that in these challenges " and sometimes they're kind of overwhelming " we are always looking for where the gift in …
"At the age of 16," Michel says, "I knew right away that I wanted to work as an actress on stage and then that was it. I was in love with the theater and will always be in love with the thea…
"At the age of 16," Michel says, "I knew right away that I wanted to work as an actress on stage and then that was it. I was in love with the theater and will always be in love with the thea…
"We generally know what's going to set each other off so we really try not to get stuck in each other's territory," Melville explains. Furthermore, says Chalsma, "We are blessed with amazing…
"Diane loved living large. She loved being the bridge, the connector. She loved people to thrive. She loved to support artists. She loved to have a great laugh."
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"How do we stay together?" Jack muses. "How do these couples . . . longevity? When it gets so bad, the other person is not as bad off as you, and they can hold the fort while you can't."
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"We're flying blind here, enacting severe, cautionary policies in a void of data. And the lock-down policy itself may exacerbate the crisis " school closures in which kids return to, and inf…
Frankenstein Reviewed by Vanessa Cate Four Larks Closed RECOMMENDED "I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous…
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