Although new plays can be exciting and are crucial to the continuing vitality of theatre, I’m especially fond of older works, the more obscure the better. It’s cheap time travel, immersing oneself in a long-past...
Category - Theater
Terry Morgan
“Robbin, from the Hood” at The Road
Message plays are a pillar of western theater. Our entire theatrical ecosystem is unthinkable without works such as Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House or Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, to name...
Eclipse Theatre LA presents “Something Wicked This Way Comes”
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes! This portentous line is uttered by one of the three weird sisters in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Coming to L.A. this October is a spooky staging of Ray...
Pauline Adamek
“Clarkston” presented by Echo Theater Company
In my twenty-five years of theater reviewing, time and again when I find myself less enthusiastic about a show, ninety-nine percent of the time the culprit is the writing. One would think that there’d be a higher...
Sierra Madre Playhouse presents World Premiere of ¡Pasaje!
The Spanish word ¡Pasaje! translates as ‘passage’ or ‘crossing.’ It can also mean “fare”, “ticket”, “airfare”, and even “scripture”...