The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language has five definitions for "entropy" [ěn′ trә-pē]. Four of the five could aptly be applied to Bill Robens' play of the same name currently bouncing off the walls at Theatre of Note. Myself now, I think I'll go
Forever Flamenco is back at the Fountain Theatre, which is cause for celebration. I am a self admitted aficionado, whose been beating the drum for Deborah Lawlor's program which brings the world's most talented performers of Flamenco to Los Angeles, and after seeing the offering of
Okay, a quick side bar. My mother came to Los Angeles in the early '50s as a single parent. She was a raven haired beauty, and my mom, how to phrase this
At one point in the production of Lauren Gunderson's I and You at the Fountain Theatre, the main character's bedroom falls apart. Unfortunately, the play had fallen apart long before that moment. Now, I make it a rule not to write reviews of bad plays. What's the
First a bit of Irish history. The Black and Tans were a force of mostly former soldiers enrolled in the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Irish War of Independence. They were mostly British ex-service men, veterans of the vicious front of Western Europe, but a
People are funny. In the way we keep making the same mistakes. Even when we're conscious of our tendency to run with fallacious reasoning, or a certain set of logical blinders we're apt to don, or the fact that we're suckers for a redhead or a
I love Shakespeare. Straight up. If I could cook him down I'd probably be mainlining the Bard. Any Shakespeare junkie has a major Jonez for the Henry plays. Richard II, Henry IV Parts I and II and Henry V taken together are an Elizabethan House of Cards only
"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we know least." Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) In viewing Peter Landesman's Parkland (2013), it is near impossible not to recall Oliver Stone's JFK (1991). Jointly they present the parallel universe inhabited by the American psyche as it pertains to the assassination
"If you want to live, come with me – and keep in harmony" Yes, I troll Netflix, the cable channels, and DVDs. I am like the cinema version of Dostoyevsky's "Underground Man," in the sense that I avoid the bright boulevards of major studio releases and hunt
Jesus Christ Superstar is a great show. Lyrics by Tim Rice, and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and for my money its Webber's best. It had something none of his shows would ever have again. Controversy. Rice and Webber's rock opera, empathizing Jesus' interpersonal struggles with his disciples
