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January 01, 1990 - October 05, 2012 + Opening the Curtain
The Pleasure of Consequences 
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Take a beautiful, sexually liberated female archetype. Mix in some macho dialogue filled with wit and innuendo. Add a dash of gratuitous nudity and play...
The Importance of Audience
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(Text-only commentary) There's a great essay by Eugenio Barba, the European theater director and thinker, where he talks about the critical role of the audience...
Oh Baby, I'm a Cyclops
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Today we start with a quick refresher on obscure classical Greek theater...the Satyr Play. Now, Satyrs are the those bawdy half man/half beast follower's of...
Drama of the Everyday
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Sometimes the best theater happens outside the theater. Like in the line at the grocery store. That little snippet of a conversation that you overhear...
Greed Isn't What It Used to Be
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So you get the email. You know, that email. Maybe it's from someone in Nigeria with a pile of money or maybe you've won the...
One Final Monologue
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With the holidays and the year end upon us, it's that time again when we look back out our lives and creative some kind...
A Holiday Wedding
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They say that at the end of Shakespeare's plays, everyone's either dead or married. Much Ado about Nothing falls into the wedding category. And you...
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Recently Closeted Gay Man
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In 1977, after a decade of drowning his demons, Tennessee Williams finished an autobiographical play he'd started 40 years before. On the page, the play...
Holiday Theater, Anyone?
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The holidays are upon us. There's no escaping it. From the incessant carols at Rite-Aid and the ringing of the Salvation Army bells outside to...
Arts Funding, Anyone?
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Here’s the Cliff Notes of a new work now at RedCat. A woman gives the audience a slideshow tour of her beloved Rotterdam...There’s a statue...
The Origin of Theater?
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The new show Hyperbole: origins begins with a quick history of LA from the Indians all the way through Sig alerts, all captured with little...
Where's the Next Bet?
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Playwright John Steppling's characters are not the kind of people you'd like to meet in a dark alley. They are desperate men. They're men living...
A Window to a Playwright
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It's tricky. I'm realizing that my reviews end up having the same arc as the plays I see. Which makes this week tough because The...
Elizabethan Sitcom
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I am about to say something for which I expect to be pilloried: Not all of Shakespeare’s plays are great. There, I said it. Take...
A Winning Season
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In any story, the protagonist is motivated by passion. You know: avenging the death of a loved one, righting a wrong, becoming king. In Jordan...
