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...
Category - Theater
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...
Terry Morgan
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”...
A Noise Within presents “The Skin of Our Teeth”
Thornton Wilder’s 1942 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Skin of Our Teeth, is an assuredly odd duck. It’s eighty-two years old but still seems postmodern with its frequent fourth-wall breaking, playfulness with time and...
City Garage presents a new play by Neil LaBute “If I Needed Someone”
Neil LaBute’s new two-hander play drops us right into a date-in-progress. The pair have drunkenly staggered back to one of the couple’s place to hang out after a night of drinking. “I’m not staying!” the woman (Jules...