Play review
‘Engaging Shaw,’ an intellectual comedy about Fabian Society socialists and their marriages
March 22, 2018"Engaging Shaw" is generally a playful mental exercise that turns over some of the most established rules of society and asks that we “engage” with their less pretty underside.
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Is nothing Sacred, Fools?: “The Art Couple” premieres in L.A.
March 8, 2018When I found out Sacred Fools was mounting a play about Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin I immediately set out to review The Art Couple.
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“The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk”: A Valentine to Marc and Bella Chagall
March 1, 2018Who isn’t enchanted by the exuberant canvases of Russian Jewish painter Marc Chagall, with his green cows and red fish and colorful village vignettes of his remembered shtetl youth?
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“The Heart of Robin Hood”: A swashbuckling romance for people’s justice
December 6, 2017What do you get when you cross Cirque de Soleil with Into the Woods?
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“Girls of the Golden West”: The passion of California according to Dame Shirley
November 27, 2017The New York Times singled out this San Francisco Opera (SFO) premiere as “the most eagerly anticipated new opera of the season.”
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