By Ernest Kearney — " Miss America’s Ugly Daughter" written and performed by Barra Grant, the daughter of Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America, was once, possibly, an entertaining evening.
This "play with a musical," by David David Henry Hwang (music/additional lyrics by Jeanine Tesori), directed by Leigh Silverman and choreographed by Sam Pinkleton, continues through June 10, 2018 at the Ahmanson Theatre in downtown Los Angeles.
"La Razón Blindada," by Argentinean playwright Aristides Vargas, achieves many things on stage; it is disturbing and insightful, but more than anything else, it is staggeringly funny. Currently running at the 24th Street Theatre in Los Angeles
The Coeurage Theatre Company has a mission statement, startling in both brevity and boldness: “…to make impassioned theatre accessible for all audiences through Pay What You Want admission….”
Over the years they have succeeded in…
Under the direction of Giovanna Sardelli, solid performances command the stage, in a new work by Rajiv Joseph; author of the award winning "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" and "Guards at the Taj."
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 consciousness with his staging of Ellen McLaughlin’s Ajax in Iraq at the Miles Playhouse in Santa Monica by his Not Man
“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 Bering Straits, John Cox definitely has an interesting story for his one man show, The Money Fi$h. However an interesting story