theater
He is gone from you now … reflections on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
January 9, 2012"Around 1968," Jackson says, "my parents were working at pretty good jobs, in a factory. Now there are no more jobs. What would Dr. King think of that?"
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“Richard III”: Classic with a modern lesson
July 12, 2011Enjoying Shakespeare under the stars at Topanga Canyon's Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum is de rigeur during summertime for Angeleno theatergoers.
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“Chinese Massacre” dramatizes little-known history
May 16, 2011Playwright Tom Jacobson takes a Howard Zinn-like "people's history" look at Los Angeles, revealing a little-known pogrom against L. A.'s then-200 inhabitants of Chinese ancestry.
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“The Temperamentals” strikes a blow for the sexual revolution
April 27, 2011The Temperamentals is part of a significant emerging trend in contemporary American theater.
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“Broken Glass”: What it means to be a Jew in America
March 14, 2011Arthur Miller is our very own American Shakespeare. Broken Glass is one of Miller's lesser-known works - it ran only 73 performances when it opened on Broadway in 1994, although it was Tony-nominated - and is...
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