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‘A Killer Night in Studio City’ play review: Controversial and somewhat entertaining (opens the original)
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Sometimes when a journalist sets out to cover a story, the ink-stained wretch has absolutely no idea what he/she is getting himself into. As I approached Vitello’s in Studio City, a reporter for L.A.’s CBS news affiliate with a cameraman asked to interview me—I believe it was Laurie Perez. In any case, she wanted to know what I thought about the controversy re: the play I was about to cover, A Killer Night in Studio City. When I confessed I had no idea there was a dispute regarding the dinner th
‘Antigone’ play review: An amazing anti-Trump adaption with focus on resistance (opens the original)
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The Latino Theater Company and Getty Villa Museum’s stunning co-presentation of Antigone: In the Language of Kings is arguably the theatrical event of the year for Los Angeles’ theatergoers. In this very Angeleno Antigone, LTC’s associate artistic director and playwright Evelina Fernández has transplanted Sophocles’ 5th century B.C. Greek tragedy from Thebes to pre-Columbian Tenochtitlan, capital of the pre-contact Aztec Empire in Mexico. Relocating a story from one culture to a completely diffe
‘A Case for the Existence of God’ theater review: Well-crafted but ill-named play (opens the original)
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Before this atheistic aesthete indulges, with tongue firmly planted in cheek, in a rant about this play’s egregiously pompous hifalutin name, I feel compelled to confess that: 1.) A Case for the Existence of God is certainly a well-written, well-acted, and well-directed drama, and I recommend that serious theatergoers see it; 2.) The award-winning playwright Samuel D. Hunter is definitely a very accomplished wordsmith and a better writer than I’ll ever be (he wrote 2022’s The Whale, which Brenda
‘The Arsonists’ play review: Absurdist theater takes on evils of capitalism (opens the original)
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I strongly suspect that when the Swiss-German playwright Max Frisch wrote The Arsonists during the 1950s, he fully intended it to be mounted in a wildly over-the-top manner. This was, after all, during the heyday of the Theater of the Absurd, and the astute theatergoer can discern the influences of Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, as well as Brecht (whom Frisch met), throughout this one-act play about pyromaniacs wreaking havoc on a beleaguered town. Interestingly, Frisch wr
‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ play review: A soulful and haunting must-see performance (opens the original)
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A Noise Within’s production of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is ANW’s seventh mounting since 2019 of August Wilson’s 10 “American Century Cycle” plays, directed by Gregg T. Daniel, and in my humble opinion, it is the best one I’ve seen so far. Wilson’s wide-ranging decalogue of dramas about African Americans is also known as the “Pittsburgh Cycle” because each of the 10 productions occurs in a different decade of the 20th century, mostly in that Pennsylvania city. However, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is
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