plays
“Pilgrims”: New play asks questions about replicating utopian genocide
June 29, 2017As Sigmund Freud argued in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, we are unconsciously compelled to repeat or recreate the conditions or experiences of violence we have suffered.
Read more“Beyond the Waterfront”: A multidisciplinary collaborative project on the L.A. docks
June 29, 2017A large part of the raison d’être of this piece is to showcase the skills of the Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre, which specializes in performances in extraordinary, non-theatrical locations.
Read more“The Pride”: The difference gay pride makes, and doesn’t
June 23, 2017Campbell’s writing in this four-actor play is an elegantly limned double portrait, as if through a two-way mirror, of two distinct time periods.
Read moreThe ever-controversial Caesar comes out in Lou Harrison opera
June 16, 2017Let’s go back to a time maybe 35 years or so before he was murdered at age 55, when Caesar was coming into his manhood, a bright, athletic fellow.
Read moreMarc Blitzstein, “The Cradle Will Rock” and gay pride
June 16, 2017American composer Marc Blitzstein’s “play in music” The Cradle Will Rock takes place in Steeltown, U.S.A., on the night of a union drive.
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