The Arts

John Farmanesh-Bocca has in the past impressed me. Now he’s pissed me off. Though, I am still impressed. A number of years back Farmanesh-Bocca first entered my

I initially reviewed John Posey’s one man show, Father, Son & Holy Coach when it played at the Whitefire Theatre last year. I thought it

Placas: The Most Dangerous Tattoo has only a week left on its limited run at Casa 0101 in Boyle Heights, which is a pity. It

The bed is our most formidable arena. And two people in bed alone are never really by themselves. Bed by Sheila Callaghan, is a slight piece

Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop won the 2010 British Olivier Award for Best New Play. In 2011 it opened in New York with Samuel L. Jackson

Stephen Sachs is an intellectual juggernaut of a playwright who plumbs premises for his pieces from the pages of the Los Angeles Times and

Seven years prior to American Idol breaking out on Fox to become one of the most successful and talked about television shows in U.S.

Noel Coward’s Hay Fever at Theatre Palisades is a wonderfully delivered comedy of manners. Laughs and folly spring from the situation and well-turned phrases. At

The year 2015 is slipping away into history, and more importantly into memory. We are oblivious to the value of memory in our youth. Is

“Hell is really cold, wet and smells like fish.” In the tale of his time as a greenhorn on a commercial fishing barge in the

“Clip Show” A clip show is primarily a creature inhabiting the realm of television. Basically it denotes a particular episode, sometimes called cheaters, in which the

Meg Miroshnik’s The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls is a frequently poetic, consistently absorbing mishmash of Paglia’s pronouncements, Bettelheim’s theories and a cascade of

If that be the fashion of your dreams then I say hold on to those dreams

“I was trained as a classical musician, so my approach to theater comes from a different perspective than most playwrights.” So says Mary Lou

Arms and the Man is one of George Bernard Shaw’s most appealing plays; which is what he intended it to be. Shaw’s first play, Widowers’

Here you have reviews of two shows The Princes of Kings Road at the Neutra Institute Museum and Gallery, and Café Society at the Odyssey

American Falls by Miki Johnson is a lovely and touching piece of writing. It is a work about time and history, the history that was,

Here you have reviews of two shows The Princes of Kings Road at the Neutra Institute Museum and Gallery, and Café Society at the Odyssey

I always feel a kinship between August Wilson and the ancient Greek playwrights. Like the dramas of Euripides and other Athenian dramatists there are always

Wendy Graf has written an intelligent, craftsman work about an idealistic All American Girl seeking to convey her love of life through religious expression,