Last night, October 4, 2025, at The Soraya, the Martha Graham Dance Company delivered an evening of performances that conveyed a sense of high drama. Deeply reverent and electrifying, the collection formed a fitting...
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Pauline Adamek
“Otherkin” at the Road
“Only connect,” wrote E. M. Forster in his 1910 novel, Howards End, an epigraph encouraging the merging of the mind and the heart so as to live a fuller life. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to discover one’s true identity...
Terry Morgan
LA Opera’s “West Side Story” – reviewed
Possibly the greatest musical ever created, West Side Story – a modern version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet set on the mean streets of New York during the turbulent fifties – is now playing at the...
“Eureka Day” at the Pasadena Playhouse – reviewed
Jonathan Spector’s 2025 Tony Award-winning satire is a study in cringe, generating big laughs and nervous squirms in almost equal measures. When a mumps outbreak hits a progressive private primary school in Berkeley...
Boston Court presents “The Night of the Iguana”
When one reads the title The Night of the Iguana, one hopes that it will be one of those Fifties flicks about radiation creating a giant iguana terrorizing hapless humans. But, alas, it is not so. It is instead a 1961...