Playwright Phinneas Kiyomura’s play “Supper” introduces three oil-rich brothers who have come to Japan to celebrate the wedding of their fourth brother, Freddy (Joel Scher), to his very strange
A Comedy
I must admit I was dubious about a production called “The Complete History of Comedy (abridged)”. I anticipated a barrage of “chicken crossing the road” jokes. And so
Well, I did it again! Saw two movies this weekend: one good, one dreadful… The good one is “A Quiet Passion,” a beautifully mounted biography of 19th century poet Emily
Four of the best actors I’ve seen this century appeared on stage last weekend to present playwright William Mastrosimone’s timely and chilling play, “Cat’s Paw.” The actors
Editor’s note:
This review contains significant spoilers for the movie “Arrival”
If you could see the future, would you want to?
If you could have a child, knowing that
Well, it isn’t “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, but it is as scathing in its depiction of a frustrated marriage as anything else Edward Albee ever wrote. And
In the first half of the 20th century the Brits, with their impeccable enunciation and dramatic gestures, set the standard for theater performances —Shakespeare and all the rest. In the
What could be more overwhelming than a play by Samuel Beckett? How about FIVE plays by Samuel Beckett?
Ron Sossi, the fearless founder of L.A.’s Odyssey Theatre and
The slice of life that he brings to the stage is his own. Filled with pain and anger, hostility, loneliness, and alienation, it is, nevertheless, a solo performance that in
By Cynthia Citron
They just don’t make 1940s musicals anymore. You know, the kind where all the kids get together after school in their local drugstore-hangout to slurp their
