Play review
Uncovering new depths in regional theatre production of ‘Fun Home’
February 12, 2020It was called “the first mainstream musical about a young lesbian.”
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‘Until the Flood’ peels away seething anxieties over Ferguson killing
February 5, 2020The myth of Orpheus is still, always with us, shape-shifting in time and form.
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A Sam Shepard double bill, a hilarious send-up of film conventions
January 28, 2020"This venerable mainstay of L.A.’s live stage scene is presenting the “Circa ’69” season, with revivals “of significant and adventurous plays."
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‘The Last Ship’ is a stunning masterpiece of working-class musical theatre
January 27, 2020Another self-conscious aspect of the musical genre that creeps in from time to time comes in some of the solos when singers default into crooning Broadway vocal production, particularly in the amorous, yearning songs.
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‘Nowhere on the Border,’ an engrossing play on our conscience
January 24, 2020A soul-wrenching, laser-beamed treatment of the emotional and economic issues around cross-border migration from Mexico into the U.S. Southwest.
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