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Opening the Curtain — 462 episodes · page 1 of 5
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EWhat do we do in the theatre when there is no theater?
‘Home’ review: domestic magic and the fleeting American dream
Four Larks’ creepy and gorgeous ‘Frankenstein’ will punch you in the gut
‘Found’ Review: Finding a musical in scraps of paper
'Revenge Song' review: Geek theatre rules!
The loss of the LA Weekly will drive you nuts
Are we listening?
What does the constitution mean to you?
What’s happening at REDCAT?
Roll with it
Theater for a new year
Best of 2019 LA Theatre: the gender act.
“Best of 2019 LA Theatre: the race act.”
A male swan’s spell
A big play in a tiny space
Punk? Or Poser?
A holiday cab
Theatre tip: just use white people
Comfort food comedy with a dark side
An essential journey
Internal thoughts becoming external cues
Seeing Beckett through a clown's eyes
When a play is more of a story
When is a “Handjob” more than a handjob?
EHolding an imperfect mirror up to LA (vida loca)
Time to get schooled
Breathing female life into a stubborn male classic
The trouble with expectation
The brilliant complexity of a feminist classic
Saying no to the myth
The paid intimacy of immersive theater
Manifest masculinity
Brecht without the politics
A dead man’s legacy
Shocking a culture forward
Sherlock Holmes and the case of too many plot points
Mama drama with power chords
The alchemy of emptiness
Why do you choose what you choose?
The theatre of place: Jordan Downs
Saved by the cast
Enjoy the dancing dildos
The tenure of white supremacy
Doll hubris, anyone?
A play boss-battling itself
A theatrical sudoku puzzle
Female power? Hell yes.
Time for Block Party to evolve
Bring your kids to the theater!
Sometimes the past is more real than the present
A method to the political madness
Questioning a fairy tale
Our inescapable past.
Fighting the patriarchy
Hidden classical treasures
Sleeping with your son
Theatre for a New Year
Best of 2018, part 2
Best of 2018, part 1
The challenge of time and space
A High Sugar "Nutcracker"
Look for the helpers
A mean Lear
Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
Midterm Elections and the theatre
An absence of responsibility
A Lie to make you care
Breaking free from Shakespeare's Ghetto
A blue Jello spit take of truth
An argument for Dramaturgy
The glory of subversion
Catching glimpses of a great play
The present soul of a classic
Too little water; too much drama!
‘Cabaret’ as cover band
"Who gets to be a mom?"
Getting lost in a playwright’s mind
Falling for young fruit
Moms will do anything
Going crazy in the Valley
Easy endings to difficult problems?
Great play! Right theater?
A little stinky is okay - but too much and the whole thing's a mess
An unsatisfying journey
Perverse magic of LA’s intimate theaters
Better than Cats
Straying from a mission to fulfill a promise
Weaving an audience’s soul
Struggling to find the right language
A messy, big play
Xeroxing Kantor’s mirror
Everybody's got a hustle.
What you get to carry as a human being
Shamelessly preaching to the choir
The Venn diagram of high art and fart jokes
The moving target of whiteness
Bearing witness from the choir?
How do we evolve without losing our way?
A soldier's past, missing drama in the present