theater reviews
‘The Serpent’: An Edenic experimental classic returns to the live stage
October 27, 2021Instead of telling a single tale, in The Serpent the dozen multi-culti, mostly young members of the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble stage a series of vignettes with an improvisational vibe.
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In new play, St. Clare of Assisi emerges from the Occupy movement
October 26, 2021LOS ANGELES — The Echo Theater Company’s world premiere production of Chiara Atik’s Poor Clare has just opened, delayed 19 months after the originally scheduled March 2020 premiere. We didn’t know what we were missing, but...
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Wilder’s classic Our Town gets 21st century treatment—Race, class, and all
August 3, 2021In 'The Last, Best Small Town', playwright John Guerra has adapted Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, resetting the turn-of-the-last-century Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire at turn-of-the-21st-century Fillmore, California.
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On the Topanga Trail of the Assassins: ‘Caesar’ on stage in L.A.
July 14, 2021After an extended intermission suffering under the twin tyrannies and plagues of Trumpism and COVID, the return of Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum marks a major milestone on our road back to fully living. For what is life...
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Fiddler on the sidewalks of New York: What became of Tevye
July 2, 2021The date is July 4, 1914, and the perennial hard-luck Tevye is out on the street with his ice cream cart as the crowds (Jews, Irish, Italians) gather for the parade to start.
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