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January 01, 1990 - December 06, 2012 + Opening the Curtain
History Plays 
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Theater is so damn...ephemeral...We can still experience a Michelangelo sculpture, still read James Joyce, but an ancient Greek tragedy performed by ancient Greeks...
Head in the Oven
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On February 11, 1963, Sylvia Plath turned her gas oven on and opened the door. She carefully placed wet rags under the door to the...
Natural History Theater
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ab/ab110322natural_history_thea
There's a lot of Tennessee Williams in Los Angeles right now. The great Southern playwright would be 100 this week and as a posthumous birthday...
Laughter, Catharsis and a Side of Gore
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So the Greeks, well Aristotle really, argued that one of the reasons to go to the theater was to experience catharsis, literally, a kind of...
Quixote's Misfortune Is Not His Imagination
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During Argentina's "dirty war" in the 1970's, the state imprisoned dissidents and other undesirables, including many artists. For some, their treatment was extreme. They were...
Camino Real
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It’s not politically correct for a theater person to say that they hate Tennessee Williams. Well “hate” might be a little strong, but l...
33 Variations
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The heart of Moises Kaufman’s new play “33 Variations” comes about 2/3 of the way through. The audience finds themselves alone with Beethoven and...
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
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ab/ab101221one_final_monologue
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
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ab/ab101207portrait_of_the_arti
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...
