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January 01, 1990 - January 03, 2013 + Opening the Curtain
The SITI Company's Questions 
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Trojan Women, written by Euripedes 2,400 years ago, is one of the most brutal, unrelenting anti-war plays ever created. The play takes place among the...
Ideas in Need of Passion
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ab/ab110830ideas_in_need_of_pas
What is love? Really? Is it a rush of the heartbeat? Is it the dedication to a child? These are the questions in Mr. Goodspeed's...
The Magic of Intimate Theater
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There's an experience you can only have in an intimate theater...There's an energy that's possible that is absolutely exhilarating...and at times horribly uncomfortable...
A Dark Night of the Soul
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Sarah Kane's play 4.48 Psychosis can be read as the internal monologue of a woman as she descends into psychosis and plans her suicide...
An All Too Pretty Labyrinth
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ab/ab110802an_all_too_pretty_la
The center of the Minotaur's mythical labyrinth is not necessarily a place you want to find yourself. But I did recently - and it was...
Healthcare and Humanity
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ab/ab110726healthcare_and_human
Longtime Angelenos will remember Anna Deavere Smith's brilliant and haunting play called Twilight: Los Angeles about the aftermath of the Rodney King trial. She's...
An All Too Clever Hamlet
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ab/ab110719an_all_too_clever_ha
Somewhere scrawled on a blackboard in a Shakespeare seminar is that perennial essay question "chart Hamlet's journey through his four soliloquies." Like "to be or...
Peeling Peer's Onion
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ab/ab110712peeling_peers_onion
"You are about to see the rarely performed 1867 masterpiece Peer Gynt, a disembodied voice says, "but instead of the epic 50-character, five-act, five-hour Ibsen...
A real theatre community?
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ab/ab110628a_real_theatre_commu
The clearest lesson of the last two weeks in LA theatre is that festivals rock! Or to try to be a little more erudite, theatre...
Was It All Make Believe?
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ab/ab110621was_it_all_make_beli
So a couple of weeks ago, I told you that this is a critical moment for LA theater...
A step into the past...and maybe the future
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ab/ab110614a_step_into_the_past
Roughly a decade ago, the evidEnce Room was one of the centers of LA theater....churning out thrilling show after show, all
in fantastic warehouse spaces...
The Magic of Polaroid
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ab/ab110607the_magic_of_polaroi
Remember the magic of Polaroid cameras? Unlike the camera on your iPhone, there was that satisfying, mechanical ker-chunk as the photo spit itself out like...
A Desire for Honesty
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ab/ab110531a_desire_for_honesty
Kate Fodor's play 100 Saints You Should Know is all about longing -- for faith, intimacy, a real connection with your child, and perhaps most...
Spotlight on LA
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ab/ab110524spotlight_on_la
For a couple of weeks in June, and perhaps for the first time ever, LA will be the center of the American Theater! No really!...
Fleck's Madness
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ab/ab110517flecks_madness
Depending on your politics and artistic tastes, John Fleck is either famous or infamous as being one of what was called "The NEA Four..."
