reviews
Harold Pinter’s dark comedy “The Hothouse” menacingly amuses in L.A.
January 29, 2018The acting is ace, the material challenging, the production rare.
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The Koch brothers are killing the people of Crossett, Arkansas
December 12, 2017The Arkansas tourism bureau might call it “The Natural State,” but no one goes to Crossett down in Ashley County for the nature.
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Compelling documentary films screened at Toronto Festival
December 8, 2017"One can not live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know or react to the miseries which afflict this world."
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Clashes of class and culture at L.A.’s Encuentro theater festival
November 22, 2017Encuentro has brought the Vueltas Bravas theater company from Bogotá, Colombia, in its staging of Miss Julia adapted by J. Ed Araiza, directed by Lorenzo Montanini.
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“Deferred Action” and “Dementia”: Two outstanding productions at Encuentro
November 15, 2017LOS ANGELES—Twice again, the Encuentro de las Américas Latinx theater festival scores a pair of home runs. What a huge job to pull something like this together! It winds down on November 19, so for those...
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