theater reviews
‘The Wolves’ explores the inner lives of a girls’ soccer team
March 22, 2019Girls’ and women’s sports may still be underreported and undervalued, but it seems it’s a hot subject in the theatre right now.
Read more‘Blues for Mr. Charlie,’ further James Baldwin ruminations on race
March 20, 2019This lofty, must-see, powerful production of Blues for Mr. Charlie is the latest in a list of a revival of works by author/playwright/polemicist James Baldwin.
Read more‘Pure Native,’ ‘Too Much Sun,’ ‘Home’: Three plays about home
March 13, 2019Three plays running now in L.A. are centered around notions of home.
Read more‘The Clemency of Titus,’ Mozart’s morality play about the enlightened leader
March 7, 2019Mozart’s The Clemency of Titus (La Clemenza di Tito), dramatizes part of the life and reign of the Roman emperor Titus Flavius Caesar Vespasianus Augustus.
Read more‘Canyon’ and ‘Hype Man’ reveal the chasm of racial division in America
March 7, 2019Two new plays, one a world and the other a West Coast premiere, have just opened in L.A., both dealing with the hot-button issues of our time.
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