Play review
Shakespeare’s ‘Coriolanus’: An ancient class struggle epic with modern topicality
June 5, 2018In the first act the company’s timing was occasionally off, but by Act II they were off and flying into the wild blue yonder.
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Jeanine Tesori’s musical ‘Violet’ again, now in Hollywood
May 18, 2018The creators of Violet are issuing a strong critique of our national Hollywood obsession.
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Charles Busch’s ‘Die, Mommie, Die!’ is apotheosis of campy gay melodrama
May 16, 2018If you just might be starting to think that some of the characters and plots that come out of Hollywood are kind of absurd, a ticket to Die, Mommie, Die! is just your ticket.
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‘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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