theater reviews – Page 22

‘An Enemy of the People’: Ibsen’s righteous rage and indignation updated

June 27, 2019 By Ed Rampell

I often look askance at adaptations executed for mainly commercial reasons, poetic license perpetrated without the consent of dead bards. But sometimes they work.

‘Dr. Nympho vs. the Sex Zombies,’ mashup of genres, amuses in L.A.

May 2, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

I am not especially a zombie fan, but Dr. Nympho came so highly vouched for that I did not want to miss it.

‘Diana of Dobson’s’: A 1908 British romantic comedy defies oppressive women’s roles

April 24, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Perhaps it’s a fairy tale, a kind of reverse Cinderella, but any way you look at it, it’s a brilliant snapshot of class and gender relations in the Edwardian era.

Plays ‘Faith Healer’ and ‘Rotterdam’ demand rigorous self-examination

April 3, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Now haunting and mystical, now bawdy and besotted, now full of bravado and then abasement, Faith Healer questions both faith and healing.

‘The Mother of Henry’: An anti-war play in 1960s East L.A.

April 3, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

While not groundbreaking theatre, it does relate an important and effective story that a lot of people can relate to.