plays
Bringing Eleanor Roosevelt’s lover Lorena Hickok out of the shadows
February 26, 2016The play's frank assertion that Hick and Eleanor were lovers represents a departure from earlier dramatizations of their relationship.
Read moreNew L.A. play says: Beware the catch in every dream
February 2, 2016The new play "Dream Catcher" provides an uninterrupted 80 minutes of high drama between two passionate characters.
Read more“Candide”: The best of all possible shows?
January 27, 2016It's at all times innovative, witty and charming, full of puppetry, pageantry, imaginative stagecraft and Voltaire's waggish sensibility.
Read moreBullets and broken hearts over Broadway
January 22, 2016So, a Marxist walks into a theater to watch a fluffy new musical set in the 1930s - and leaves with a big wide smile across his face.
Read more“Scott and Hem”: An imagined second act of the crack up
October 27, 2015Mark St. Germain's "Scott and Hem" imagines a 1937 F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meetup in Hollywood.
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