*** If you”™re even slightly reluctant to travel for theatre in Los Angeles, for fear you”™ll be wasting your time, I highly suggest you find the quickest way to the Santa Monica Playhouse. Playwright Todd...
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Pauline Adamek
Portraits that pulse with life — Heartbeat drawings by Sasaki
*** Have you ever heard your heartbeat? Not just echoing dully through a doctor”™s slender stethoscope, but pulsing and reverberating throughout the room? Innovative Japanese artist Sasaki puts your heartbeat...
A magical and creative show — Pinocchio at Deaf West Theatre
*** Written between 1881″”1883, Italian author Carlo Collodi”™s cautionary fable Pinocchio is about a mischievous wooden toy who dreams about becoming a real boy. The tale has been adapted for the stage by...
An incendiary play — Firehouse at Whitefire
*** Whitefire Theatre turns up the heat in Sherman Oaks, presenting the world premiere of Firehouse and bringing a bit of the South Bronx to our very own backyard. Review by Tracy Lynn Schafer When cop-turned-rookie...
This week’s theatre review for LA Weekly
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Gentle readers, click on the link below, and then scroll down, to read my review of a quartet of new plays —
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Review by Pauline Adamek