theater reviews
‘H*tler’s Tasters’: Four young women waiting for Adolf in expressionistic, absurdist play
April 30, 2024LOS ANGELES – Written by Los Angeles playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks, the uninterrupted genre-defying 85-minute play H*tler’s Tasters opened April 27, and I was eager to see it. Brooks reimagines the historical protocol at Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair...
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‘The Climb’ dramatizes trauma, adaptation, and hope for the blind
December 7, 2023“The failure is not trying,” the performers state, as one of a number of memorable mottos. “Never lose sight of who you are.”
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Framing Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Mexico’s great revolutionary painters in opera
December 1, 2023If ever there was a couple absolutely ideal for immortalization in the musical medium of opera, it’s Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
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After 70 years, Albert Maltz’s ‘The Morrison Case’ gets its U.S. premiere
November 3, 2023The final words of the drama prompt the audience to think about patriotism.
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Native dramatist satirizes ‘woke’ pretensions in ‘The Thanksgiving Play’
October 20, 2023SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—What is to be done about Thanksgiving? What does it even mean anymore? How do we celebrate it? Should we at all? And most importantly, how do we teach it to our children? What...
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