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“This is why: Out on the American plain, Edward, the Hobo and the pooch (named Lucky, of course), find themselves under a star-lit sky. Using what director Debbie Devine described as a cheesy $7 gobo, the entire theater was engulfed in starlight. A 10-year-old girl in the audience couldn’t contain herself.”
“In 1998, ‘identity politics’ meant weaving people in to the American quilt. Today, in a kind of backlash, that same term has come to mean keeping people out.”
“Where’s the Genius? I came to see the great Irish genius! Where is he?” Teddy recounts one of Grace’s rants, as Frank is preparing for an audience that hasn’t yet shown up, and may not.
“Get out. Get that bitch out!”
‘“Oh, he’s here, is he?” she says. ‘Physician heal thyself!’ she says with this great, mad mocking voice.’”
“Among our theater companies, Four Larks is probably the most soulful interpreter of theological ideas.”
“In late March, 2018, The Complex Theatre’s Managing Director, Monica Martin, was notified by the theater’s landlord, Betty Spivak, of a $10,000 lawsuit filed against Spivak on March 23, by plaintiff Christopher Martinez, whom neither Spivak nor Martin had met.”
Last week, I walked into the chicken run to spread a treat of wild bird seed from a red plastic Folgers coffee container. To my surprise, Baxter attacked the container while it was still in my hand. This was not over-enthusiasm for the contents, this was an attack. The golden hackle feathers on his neck were flared as he lunged at the interior of the now empty plastic container.
Stage Raw has recruited four high school students who’ve expressed an interest in arts journalism. We’ll be guiding them through issues of journalism’s larger purpose, and of ethics.
What do we tell them? How do we lay out the case for journalism, for the arts, and for arts journalism to enthusiastic teenagers curious about a sector they’re only starting to dabble in?
“Husband and wife team Harry Groener and Dawn Didawick received supporting male and female nods, respectively. Didawick showed up after having endured an emergency appendectomy the prior day. Talk about the actor must go on . . .”
“On Wednesday morning, as I was getting ready to drive to the San Bernardino train station, to commute to LA STAGE Alliance, I smelled smoke, stepped outside to see ash floating down from a silver sky, like snow. Beyond my deck and a vista of pines and cedars was a daunting plume of black-gray smoke. Yet there were no sirens, no helicopters. The silence was eerie. Nothing yet was being reported.”
The 2018 Stage Raw Theater Awards celebrate excellence on the Los Angeles stages in venues of 99-seats or under. This fourth annual edition includes productions that opened between January 1, 2017 and May 31, 2018.
