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...
Category - Theater
Terry Morgan
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”...
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...