theater reviews – Page 23

‘Argonautika’: Ode on a Grecian epic (with togas!)

March 28, 2019 By Ed Rampell

Although it goes over the top and misses the boat at times, Argonautika is still well worth embarking on a voyage of discovery.

‘The Wolves’ explores the inner lives of a girls’ soccer team

March 22, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Girls’ and women’s sports may still be underreported and undervalued, but it seems it’s a hot subject in the theatre right now.

‘Blues for Mr. Charlie,’ further James Baldwin ruminations on race

March 20, 2019 By Ed Rampell

This lofty, must-see, powerful production of Blues for Mr. Charlie is the latest in a list of a revival of works by author/playwright/polemicist James Baldwin.

‘Pure Native,’ ‘Too Much Sun,’ ‘Home’: Three plays about home

March 13, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Three plays running now in L.A. are centered around notions of home.

‘The Clemency of Titus,’ Mozart’s morality play about the enlightened leader

March 7, 2019 By Ed Rampell

Mozart’s The Clemency of Titus (La Clemenza di Tito), dramatizes part of the life and reign of the Roman emperor Titus Flavius Caesar Vespasianus Augustus.