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January 01, 1990 - January 25, 2013 + Theatre Talk
Rustlers and Hustlers 
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Con men have always found safe haven in theaters. Theater is based on persuasion. Actors we know not to be Greek Goddesses or...
Springtime for Broadway: Listening to the Season
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One year ago, at the 2006 Tony Awards Ceremony, Southern California Theaters received a fair bit of attention, as the two new musicals that won...
Routine Shockers
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W. Somerset Maugham was
the Neil LaBute of his time. One hundred years ago, Maugham was well known in London as a novelist, but
he also liked...
Travesties
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Tom Stoppard is one of the few undisputed Theatrical geniuses of our
age—and one of the few writers for whom a major Hollywood success is a
mere...
Buggy Rides
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With Memorial Day fast approaching, theatergoers looking
for the theatrical equivalent of a summer beach read should head to the
Coast. The Coast Playhouse in West
Hollywood, home...
Gun Shows
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The British dramatist Tom Taylor wrote over 100 plays in
the 19th century, many of them quite popular in his day. Taylor lived to see eight...
Pulitzers, Past and Present
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Last Monday it was announced that David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. As those who saw the first-rate Broadway production...
Trial by Perjury
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Lying in the name of promoting justice is rarely a good idea. Just ask Alberto Gonzales' staff members who've had to step down for fear...
On the Rocks
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Deborah Brevoort's new play The Women of Lockerbie opens
with a bang. Literally. The lights go down and we begin to hear the
mundane sounds of a...
All Talk
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The famous last lines of Beckett's Waiting for Godot: "Well, shall we go? Yes, let's go. [They do not move]" have evolved over the years...
Anatol: Seven Brides for One Austrian
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Eight years ago, the English-speaking world was subject to a sudden
shock of Arthur Schnitzler adaptations. First, London and Broadway
audiences saw David Hare's The Blue Room,...
Juliet and Julie: Hot (up)Dates
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It was just a matter of time before an LA Theater presented
Shakespeare's tale of star-crossed lovers with Juliet in low-riding
jeans and Ugg boots. Joe Regalbuto's...
Inexplicable Delights
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Try to explain the following: there's musical called Altar Boyz--that's Boyz with a'z.' It's a sort of theatrical This is Spinal Tap about a Christian...
Frightening Families
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Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not local audiences or producers apparently, considering that not one, but two productions of Edward Albee's exhausting, three-act play could...
Industry Standards
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In another era, Douglas Carter Beane's theatrical baubles could be considered innocuous, if clever, ways for an entire generation to gaze at its navel; but,...
