theater
‘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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“Bronco Billy, The Musical” review
May 20, 2019It’s all largely played for fun, with heaps of gags, jokes, wisecracks and but of course songs along the way.
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L.A. Times Bomb: Docu-play puts media and history on trial
May 17, 2019"LA Times Bomb" deserves to be presented at other outlets and forums. It could be nothing short of explosive.
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Growing up and getting wiser in the land of ‘Falsettos’
April 22, 2019All art requires a certain level of suspension of disbelief, and Falsettos presents no exception to the rule.
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‘Birdland Blue’ evokes Miles Davis’s late 1950s jazz world
April 10, 2019The play spools out in one 90-minute act, engaging eye, ear and heart all the way.
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