theater
‘The Joy Wheel’ and “Friends with Guns’: Survivalist apocalypse has arrived
March 19, 2019Despite my own reaction to the play—perhaps because of it—I believe this is a highly important play for our time.
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‘America Adjacent’ world premiere explores high cost of American Dream
February 26, 2019In America Adjacent, the playwright asks, “How far would you go to give your child a better future?”
Read more‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ treats disability, poverty, cruelty with dark humor
February 21, 2019I found myself not understanding every word uttered, but after a while not caring, for McDonagh clearly finds joy purely in the gift of language itself.
Read more‘Champion: An Opera in Jazz’ about boxer Emile Griffith, set for Montreal staging
January 22, 2019I can only hope that there will be funding in the near future to bring a production of this magnificent work to New York City, so I can see it again.
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