theater reviews
‘Metamorphoses’: Classic myths arise from a swimming pool for modern audience
May 23, 2022As a psychoanalyst notes, appearing onstage in a new production of Mary Zimmerman’s play Metamorphoses in a segment devoted to Apollo, “Myths are the earliest forms of science,” how to explain the otherwise inexplicable.
Read moreFrom Russia with lust: Tolstoy meets ‘Florida Man’ in ‘Anna in the Tropics’
March 28, 2022It’s also worth a word that at a time when Russia is engaged in such a tragedy, this Tolstoy-derived drama reminds us of the other side of Russian history and culture, of the literature and theater...
Read more‘Assassins,’ Stephen Sondheim’s musical about Presidential shooters is a hit
February 24, 2022This imaginative, harrowing, gallows humor-type production marks the triumphant return of one of L.A.’s finest theaters.
Read more‘The Serpent’: An Edenic experimental classic returns to the live stage
October 27, 2021Instead of telling a single tale, in The Serpent the dozen multi-culti, mostly young members of the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble stage a series of vignettes with an improvisational vibe.
Read moreIn new play, St. Clare of Assisi emerges from the Occupy movement
October 26, 2021LOS ANGELES — The Echo Theater Company’s world premiere production of Chiara Atik’s Poor Clare has just opened, delayed 19 months after the originally scheduled March 2020 premiere. We didn’t know what we were missing, but...
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