drama
‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’: Human connection a shield against fascism
April 10, 2023PASADENA, Calif. — Thrust together at an Argentine federal correctional complex, the notorious Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, two men of polar opposite persuasions occupy a common claustrophobic cell. The time is the Dirty War period...
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‘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.
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Playwright Lucas Hnath examines the idea of Walt Disney in West Coast premiere
March 30, 2022LOS ANGELES — It’s a long title for a short play about a big subject: Walt Disney. It’s A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney by Lucas Hnath, whose play...
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August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ set in Pittsburgh’s ‘urban removal’ era
December 3, 2019Ruben Santiago-Hudson and his entire cast merit a well-deserved Bravo for a joyous and revelatory couple of hours of fine-tuned stage work. A more authentic production cannot be imagined.
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‘Johnny Got His Gun’ on stage: I resist, therefore I am
October 23, 2018Joe Bonham is an all-American doughboy horribly dismembered and disfigured by enemy artillery at the frontlines in France. As Joe evolves, his determination to live intensifies, and his thoughts turn to the nature of what cut...
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