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PODCAST: Stages of Our City: Episode 11: Paul Sand Produced by Julia StierIn Episode 11, comedian, Tony Award-winning and Drama Desk Award recipient Paul Sand — now entering his 10th decade in life — has written a play (“The Pilot Who Crashed the Party”) and is directing a workshop production at the Odyssey Theatre, April 29-May […]
PODCAST: Stages of Our City: Episode 10: Katie Buenneke and Joseph Klink Produced by Julia Stier In Episode 10, Katie, Joseph and Steven Leigh Morris discuss: L.A. productions of “A Heated Discussion” (Robey Theatre Company), “The Unsackable Man” (Zombie Joe’s Underground), “A Doll’s House, Part 2” (International City Theatre), AND, out of town, Lady Gaga at […]
A Doll’s House, Part 2Reviewed by Steven Leigh MorrisInternational City TheatreThrough May 1RECOMMENDED: What is the point of writing and staging a sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s 1894 world classic A Doll’s House – perhaps the earliest call to feminism in modern stage literature?In his 2003 striking production, A Mabou Mines Dollhouse, director Lee Breuer turned Nora, […]
Michael Sasaki and Angela Oliver in <i>Masao and the Bronze Nighingale</i> (Photo by Daren Mooko)Masao and the Bronze NightingaleReviewed by Martίn HernándezCASA 0101 Through May 15RECOMMENDEDIt’s 1946 and Japanese-Americans Masao Imoto (Michael Sasaki) and his parents (Sachi Hayashi and Greg Watanabe – till May 1, when Dan Kwong replaces Watanabe) are returning to their Boyle Heights […]
Live From the Purple Lounge Reviewed by Julyza CommodoreCrimson Square Theater Company at Beverly Hills Playhouse Thru May 22 RECOMMENDED To be great is to be misunderstood. Creatives in all mediums are often misunderstood. Whether it be judgment from people closest to them or, perhaps, from others who don’t know them at all.In its world premiere […]
TeaReviewed by Deborah KlugmanHero Theatre at the Rosenthal Theater at Inner-City Arts,Thru May 15Tea, the final installment in Velina Hasu Houston’s trilogy of plays about Japanese war brides, takes place, geographically speaking, in Junction City, a small town in the northeast stretch of Kansas. That’s close to where Houston, the daughter of a Japanese woman […]
PODCAST: Stages of Our City: Episode 9: Inger Tudor and Martin HernandezProduced by Julia StierNote: The podcast reportage on On the Other Hand, We’re Happy at Rogue Machine claims that the show has closed. However, it’s has been extended through May 8. In Episode 9, Inger and Martin discuss Blues for an Alabama Sky (Mark Taper Forum), a […]
Blues for an Alabama SkyReviewed by Deborah KlugmanThe Mark Taper ForumThru May 8RECOMMENDED“Harlem was supposed to be a place where Negroes could come together and really walk about, and for a red-hot minute, we did,” muses Guy (Greg Alverez Reid), a gay fashion designer and one of five aspirational figures in Pearl Cleage’s Blues for […]
