arts and culture
‘The Whistlers,’ a Romanian crime drama featuring, uh, whistling
February 27, 2020La Gomera is the Romanian title for the new, fast-moving film named after one of the Canary Islands, where an unusual whistling language, unique in the world, is practiced.
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‘Sorry We Missed You’: Not sorry we robbed you!
February 25, 2020Possibly more than any of this other work, Sorry We Missed You stands as an example of the economic struggles which define our times.
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‘Human Interest Story,’ playwright Stephen Sachs’s righteous rage against corporate heartlessness
February 24, 2020It’s truly amazing what magic can materialize on such a small, sparsely furnished stage, but the Fountain manages to do it every time.
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‘Earthquakes in London’: Aftershock of an epic play about climate change
February 24, 2020Overall, this heady, ambitious apocalyptic concoction is the type of theatrical Molotov cocktail we’ve come to expect one of L.A.’s leading theater companies to toss at its audience.
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‘Can’t Pay? Don’t Pay!’ a madcap anarcho-socialist direct action slapstick sitcom
February 21, 2020Pay! creates a heady anarchic concoction mixing loads of laughs and antics with a tumbler of leftwing politics, as Groucho Marx mingles with Karl Marx.
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