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‘Scraps’ co-star speaks out: An interview with Denise Yolén

September 10, 2019 By Ed Rampell

This is L.A. theatergoers’ last chance to see one of the year’s best dramas.

The art of ‘The Heal,’ Sophocles’s ‘Philoctetes’ in a Malibu amphitheater

September 6, 2019 By Ed Rampell

The production, performed in front of an ancient Roman-style villa that is a repository of relics wrought contemporaneously when Sophocles created his dramas, is suffused with philosophical musings.

L.A.’s Pacific Opera Project offers broad social criticism in The Mikado

August 28, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Now Pacific Opera Project (POP) has done it again, offering local audiences another shot at “the most fun one can have in a Los Angeles theater right now."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Freudian ‘Frankenstein’ on stage in Pasadena

August 21, 2019 By Ed Rampell

A Noise Within’s (ANW) Frankenstein is one of the most striking plays I’ve ever seen.

‘Fefu and Her Friends’: Fornés’s feminist odyssey at the Odyssey

August 16, 2019 By Ed Rampell

With its cast of eight, Fefu is well acted and not without humor—although it is more of the ironic, sardonic sort than the laugh-out-loud brand found in most comedies.