theater reviews
Musical social history at Encuentro, L.A. Latino theatre festival
November 8, 2017Encuentro de las Américas! We’ve just started an 18-day “encounter” of 14 theater companies from around the U.S. and from Canada, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico, all at downtown’s Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC) through November...
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“Captain Greedy’s Carnival”: The P.T. Barnum musical about free market capitalism
October 4, 2017The frenetic play has lots of visual flourishes, and a Brecht/Weill vibe, but it also reminded me of Depression-era satire "Of Thee I Sing."
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Hershey Felder’s “Our Great Tchaikovsky,” musical biography and pro-gay manifesto
July 24, 2017"Our Great Tchaikovsky" is a combination of musical gems—not just the all-time hits such as The Nutcracker and The 1812 Overture, but also some precious pianistic miniatures.
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“Waiting for Grace,” a controversial look at love and marriage
November 15, 2016“What if true love never happens? Or worse…what if it does?”
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Big changes come to small towns in two plays
November 2, 2016I was expecting short staged vignettes of the Vonnegut stories, but instead, the stories seamlessly intersected and commented on one another.
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