theater reviews
Paul Robeson Theatre Festival: Like ‘Ol’ Man River’ Robey keeps rolling along
August 30, 2019The 2019 Paul Robeson Theatre Festival took place Aug. 23-25 with the theme of Awakening the Past, Present and Future: A Retrospective.
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L.A.’s Pacific Opera Project offers broad social criticism in The Mikado
August 28, 2019Now 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."
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‘An Enemy of the People’: Ibsen’s righteous rage and indignation updated
June 27, 2019I often look askance at adaptations executed for mainly commercial reasons, poetic license perpetrated without the consent of dead bards. But sometimes they work.
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‘Dr. Nympho vs. the Sex Zombies,’ mashup of genres, amuses in L.A.
May 2, 2019I am not especially a zombie fan, but Dr. Nympho came so highly vouched for that I did not want to miss it.
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‘Diana of Dobson’s’: A 1908 British romantic comedy defies oppressive women’s roles
April 24, 2019Perhaps it’s a fairy tale, a kind of reverse Cinderella, but any way you look at it, it’s a brilliant snapshot of class and gender relations in the Edwardian era.
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