Periodically in the theatre certain works crop up at the most crucial of times arising in answer to some distinct exigency of their own era or generation. These plays, while varying in tone and style, all fulfill a similar and much needed service: that of delivering
Abigail/1702 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has received its West Coast premiere at Long Beach's International City Theatre. As usual, the production is top quality. caryn desai, the artistic director and firm hand at the helm of ICT, directs with clarity and craft. The set by Christopher Scott Murillo
The Echo Theater Company is one of the newer jewels in the crown of Los Angeles theatre, and with their current rep staging of Jessica Dickey's Row After Row and A Small Fire by Adam Bock their gleaming grows more bedazzling. The two short works demonstrate
Sunset Baby is an intelligently written play with a superb cast that positively gleams from those benefits which blesses any play if either worthy of or lucky enough to get a production at the Odyssey Theatre. Playwright Dominique Morisseau comes bearing a bucket full of honors
Not only will I tip my hat to The Coeurage Theatre Company, but if you don't tip your hat as well, I'll be inclined to knock it off your head myself. I say again, not for the first time, not the last, Los Angeles has the
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
