theater
“Six Characters in Search of An Author”: Performing Pirandello’s pirouettes
April 6, 2016Sicilian playwright Luigi Pirandello's iconoclastic play is all the more impressive when one takes into account that its premiere in Rome was way back in 1921.
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“A Singular They”: Intersex drama explores teenage angst
March 31, 2016Most coming of age stories don't also involve deciding what gender you want to be. That's the dilemma facing the lead character in this play.
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Open letter to Motion Picture Academy, L.A. Women’s Theater Festival
March 28, 2016"Dear Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, you have come under intense criticism for Cloroxing this year's Oscars..."
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New opera “Fallujah”: Heartbreaking look at war and PTSD online now
March 23, 2016It is the first opera written about the Iraq War, and it is highly worthwhile.
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New play confronts Alaskan Native and Caucasian worlds
March 21, 2016In this play, an angry teenager from a troubled home in Juneau is sent to live and work with his Tlingit grandparents in a remote fishing village.
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