theater reviews
“The Source” updates opera for the WikiLeaks age
October 26, 2016"The Source" is to be applauded for daring to tackle such controversial subject matter.
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Musical honors Americans who fought in Spanish Civil War
October 25, 2016Eighty years ago an epic struggle began, largely to be overwritten in public memory by World War II.
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The search for signs of intelligent life revisited in L.A.
October 25, 2016The play opens with Trudy, an intelligent, though visibly deranged street person anticipating the arrival of aliens from outer space.
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Babs’ majordomo in solo play “Buyer & Cellar”
October 21, 2016Jonathan Tolins’ Buyer & Cellar is one of those clever concoctions where it’s hard to know where fact ends and fiction begins.
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“Buddy”: The day the music… lived
July 30, 2014Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story is a highly entertaining musical about the meteoric rise - and, alas, fall -- of the 1950s rock 'n' roll icon.
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