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Notes from Arden
Long Beach: “Company” Town
By 2013, Sondheim was working on a revision in which Bobby was indeed gay. A West End revival, directed by Marianne Elliott, in 2017, went one step further, re-casting the male Bobby as a female Bobbie, and indeed rendering one of the five couples gay – all with Sondheim’s blessing.
Featured Column
Fringe, Smoot, Caesar, and More: Paul Birchall’s Got It Covered
“Stage Raw was sorry to hear about the passing of the great local and Seattle theater designer Gary Smoot, who died in Seattle last May. Amongst his many contributions to shows at L.A.’s Circle X, Smoot served as production designer for productions of Love Loves a Pornographer, The American Book of the Dead, and for his extremely memorable set design in Great Men of Science, No 21 and 22. He’d been a multi-award winner of many LA Weekly, Garland, and LADCC accolades, and, in addition to frequent gigs with New York theaters, was a long time company member of Seattle’s Annex Theatre.” — BY PAUL BIRCHALL
Got It Covered
“The fallout following AEA President Kate Shindle’s comments on two podcasts continues this week. The specific purpose of these interviews was not, it seems, specifically to discuss the Pro-99 movement – but the topic came up, and Shindle ended up trying to justify Equity’s attempts to shut down equity-waiver.” — by PAUL BIRCHALL
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Around Town
“Greg Kalleres’ Honky shows little mercy in producing squirms of recognition and insecure identification for both white and black audiences, in illuminatingly different ways. Its satiric thrust can be uncannily accurate, and the genuine laughs tend to be accompanied by stinging pricks of bloodletting.” — by MYRON MEISEL
The Summer of our (Dis)Content
Our Town
Memorable Moments in L.A. Theater (Part 3)
This is the third in a series of moments remembered by people who either recorded them, or engaged in an activity best described by actress-director Jillian Amenante, “Putting on a play in L.A. is like trying to build a snowman in Florida.”