A girl I had a yen for in high school was a year older than me. Through persistence, I got her to go with me up to San Francisco to see Lawrence of Arabia. I was greeted at the door by her dad, a short, gentle guy with a kindly demeanor. When he reached out … Continue reading “Eight Nights” at Antaeus Theatre
Just thinking about Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot makes me smile. I have seen a few productions. I even auditioned for the role of Lucky decades ago at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. A friend saw the audition and judged it “dynamite.” The director wasn’t so enthusiastic. Soon thereafter, we packed our bags and headed for … Continue reading “Waiting for Waiting for Godot” at Sacred Fools
Joy and sadness abound in Julia Migenes’ farewell performances now playing at Odyssey Theatre. The joy comes from her effervescent bond with her audience, her easy manner and spontaneity, her wit, and of course her voice, sa voix, with which she can do anything. The catalog of choice French songs she performs with joy, passion, … Continue reading “La Vie en Rose” at Odyssey Theatre
It was an interesting bunch that crowded into the lobby of the Lee Strasburg Theatre in West Hollywood for the opening night of Nick Hardcastle’s, Orry, an enchanting romp through American cinema from the 1930s through to the 1960s as experienced by Orry-Kelly, the three time Oscar winning costume designer who worked on hundreds of … Continue reading “Orry” at The Lee Strasberg Theatre
Throw away any notion of anything serious when you enter the ultra-intimate confines of the Actors Workout Studio to absorb the giddy buffoonery of writer/director Matt Richey’s Romeo and Juliet in Hell. This mashup of Shakespearean characters stuck in a special realm of the bad place includes many of the most famous characters of Shakespeare, … Continue reading Romeo and Juliet in Hell” at Actors Workout Studio
Sometimes an actor is onstage when the house opens. Sometimes they are hidden, sometimes they are right down front in plain view. In the Loft Ensemble’s production of Art is Useless When You’re Being Mauled by a Bear, a new play by Alisa Tangredi, a woman in dim light (Jennifer Christina Derosa on the evening … Continue reading “Art is Useless When You’re Being Mauled by a Bear” at Loft Ensemble
There is a certain something about the Upper West Side of Manhattan, especially Riverside Drive with that ribbon of park, the Hudson flowing downstream, and the view of the New Jersey Palisades across the river. If you happen to live in a Riverside Drive apartment and are fortunate enough to have that river view, it … Continue reading “Between Riverside and Crazy” at The Fountain Theatre
