reviews
‘Crevasse’ recalls 1938 encounter between Walt Disney and fascist filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl
August 6, 2024BURBANK, Calif.—If Project 2025 isn’t explicit enough about its intent to institute fascism in America on Day One of a reprise of Donald Trump's presidency, starting January 20, 2025, some new plays now world premiering in...
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‘MaXXXine’ review: Bloody glamour and a complex female anti-hero collide for great storytelling
July 16, 2024Come for the blood and 80s aesthetic; stay for the great characters and layered storytelling.
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The robots are coming! R. U. R.eady for ‘R.U.R. Cabaret?’
June 7, 2024R.U.R. Cabaret, the musical, running about 90 minutes with one intermission, is set in a dystopian future on an island where the robots were originally created to do the work of humans and labor for them...
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Aristocrats, acrobats, anarchists, marriage proposals and a plane crash populate Shaw’s ‘Misalliance’
June 3, 2024Let the worldly wise tomfoolery and drollery unfold.
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‘Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy’ in world premiere
May 22, 2024“Mix-Mix” is an English translation of “Halo-Halo,” a dessert that’s a mixture of jellies, tapioca pearls, fruit, beans, corn, shaved ice, condensed milk and ice cream—an appropriate metaphor for the mixed cultures that came together as...
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