Anyone who ever struggled through “Finnegan’s Wake” in school can be excused for wanting to avoid James Joyce for life. And a short story called “The Dead” would surely
Remember the ballad “I Want a Sunday Kind of Love?” Well, playwright Jerry Mayer has the perfect answer for that. His celebration of the love affair between two legendary entertainers
Do you think you could ever forgive a remorseless pedophile who had raped and murdered your 10-year-old daughter?
This is the question posed by Bryony Lavery in her
Their names are Jack and Bobby, but the Kennedy brothers they’re not. In fact, they’re more like Jackie O’s crazy relatives — the ones who lived in Grey
By By Dane Roberts Wans On Bookreview
THE SUBJECT OF THIS poignant work couldn’t be more current. Though “Lives Per Gallon” was first published in 2006, the warning within
As an actor, Tim Robbins is among the best. As a playwright, not so much. At the Ivy Substation in Culver City, his company, The Actors’ Gang, has resurrected his
Getting to Theatre 40 is a bit like dropping down a rabbit hole. You enter through a rather grungy parking garage on the grounds of Beverly Hills High School and
The leading lady’s voice was loud enough to give you whiplash. Saint Monica, speaking ebonics, was totally unintelligible. Judas Iscariot spent most of his time in a catatonic state.
So there’s this nice Catholic girl. Raised in the Midwest by relentlessly religious parents. Schooled by nuns. And obediently “saving herself for marriage.”
Now living in New York, site
Kaye’s life recreated with exceptional accuracy
Nearly everyone of a certain age can convulse their friends with quotes from Mel Brooks’ character the 2000-Year Old Man. (“Joan of
