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January 01, 1990 - November 17, 2012 + Opening the Curtain
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...
Artifice and Awareness
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It's not everyday you hear someone say "Get in your car. Drive to La Jolla and see some Dostoyevsky!” Today is your lucky day...
A World of Desire
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The question raised by two works performed in Southern California this weekend is: To what length will we go to pursue a forbidden desire? And...
The Cart before the Horse
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OK, there are these young lovers and their love is thwarted by their pompous elders. So they ask their wacky servants to help out, and...
How Big Is Your Chorus?
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You'd think that something as tried and true as Greek tragedy was cut in stone. But watching Sophocles Elektra performed at the expansive outdoor amphitheater...
Dinosaurs and Storytelling
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Before the onslaught of fall theater openings I thought we'd leave the intimacy of local theater and go big . . . really, really big. ...
The History Next Door
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Neighbors, a new play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, starts in a peaceful, familiar middle class suburb, home to Richard, a black upwardly mobile professor and his...
The Theater Needs You
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It's been said that the role of the theater is to synchronize the audience and the artists in time and space. Traditionally that's been pretty...
Bloody Irresponsible
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It's about two thirds of the way through Martin McDonagh's play The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and the stage is covered in blood. Not just a...
Brewsie and Willie
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When I first came to LA from Colorado, I struggled with time. There was something about the loss of seasons, or at least seasons as...
Procreation
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Male Frontal nudity . . . . check.
Profound familial dysfunction . . . . check.
Gratuitous crotch grab for humorous effect . . . check.
Closeted gay...
A Warehouse and a Dream
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There are works of theater that hold a mirror, or a magnifying glass to life. We go to the theater to examine life as we...
