PM: Good morning, Ms. Loewenberg. Thank you for talking with me. I’d like to ask you a few questions about L. A. Theatre Works and the upcoming production of David Haig’s “Pressure. SAL: I am delighted to be able to talk with you about “Pressure.” PM: I have explored the company website and was impressed with … Continue reading An Interview with L.A. Theatre Works Producing Director Susan Loewenberg
It is more than a hundred years since the Armenian Genocide began in the first year of World War I. It is generally believed to have cost the lives of a million and a half people murdered over an eight-year period. The killings were brutal, savage, and the survivors, of course, were traumatized. The Allied … Continue reading “Constantinople” at Vista Players
The rich like owning stuff. Islands, paintings, many, many homes, precious works of art, vintage automobiles; the list of acquisitions is endless and growing. Should such treasure be owned at all? In truth, all ownership is temporary. Ownership is custodianship. News flash! Everyone dies! But who owns antiquities? Should they be owned at all? Should … Continue reading “The Spanish Prayer Book” at The Road Theatre Company
Set in the 1970s, a time when women’s lib became an actuality, mariachi music was the sole domain of men. For women to play and sing the music was an abomination. Lucha (Gabriela Carrillo), an ambitious college student on the cusp of graduation, is burdened with the home care of her mother, Amalia (Diana Burbano), … Continue reading “American Mariachi” at South Coast Repertory
You have to admire the boldness of Sacred Fools Theater Company. As I have been covering their productions over the past four years, I have come to relish the company’s audacity, their damn-the-torpedoes-full-steam-ahead bravado. Often their projects are flat out brilliant, as, for example, The Art Couple and A Gulag Mouse testify. Others might just … Continue reading “Deadly” at Sacred Fools
Already the fall theatre season is opening with a bang. This week, it is Deaf West’s extraordinary production of Tony Award-winning playwright Jack Thorne’s, The Solid Life of Sugar Water. The title is left to the audience to ken, as is the searing, vibrant performance by the actors. Deaf actors Tad Cooley as Phil and … Continue reading “The Solid Life of Sugar Water” at Deaf West Theatre
I must be leading a sheltered life here in my apartment in the greater Los Angeles megalopolis. I thought I was pretty much up on things. I read the Times and the New Yorker. I watch the ever-saddening news. I talk to lots of people. I see lots of plays. But until I signed up … Continue reading “Handjob” at Echo Theatre
