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Notes from Arden
Hugo Armstrong’s Uncle Vanya
Michetti’s staging of Uncle Vanya at the Pasadena Playhouse is the best production of Vanya since Louis Malle’s 1994 movie of the play (“Vanya on 42nd Street”)
Featured Column
When Words Mattered: Murray Mednick Interview, Part 2
Murray Mednick: “I was working as a waiter. Maybe it’s my age now and I’ve been through the mill. But, you know, I’m ok now… But it’s very important that theater arts, especially the avant-garde, the experimental side, be supported. To live and make a living at what you do is morally right.” — INTERVIEW BY GRAY PALMER
Got It Covered
“I love how the City of West Hollywood has crafted a partnership with the Fringe, and I only wish that other groups would also step forward to do likewise. Imagine if other entities with bucks promoted diversity by bankrolling fringe productions for other underrepresented groups. If West Hollywood can do it, why can’t other organizations and municipalities?” — by PAUL BIRCHALL
Ask Corbett
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Around Town
“I found Dirt to be a moving contemplation of the intersections of science and philosophy, full of concrete human details that heighten one’s sense of our implication in the natural world beyond our own egocentrism.” — by MYRON MEISEL
The Summer of our (Dis)Content
Our Town
Memorable Moments in L.A. Theater (Part 2)
This is the second in a two-part 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.” — SLM