Too Much or Too Little of One Jewish Boy

I wrote this on Tuesday morning, reflecting back on Election Day 2016. I hoped we wouldn’t have to do this again... but we do. It’s just before 9 AM and I’m headed south on the 405. The sky is that clear radiant blue that we only get

Back in the '90s, if you wanted to see Richard Foreman’s Ontological Hysterical Theater Company, it was something of a pilgrimage. You had to make it down to the Bowery and St. Marks and then find this tiny little staircase. The lobby wasn’t much bigger and usually

How you think about the production of American Idiot, which opened last night at the Mark Taper Forum, depends on your context. Do you see it as a co-production of Deaf West Theatre Company? Do you think of it as a revamp of a punk rock musical? Or do you

A good way in to playwright James Ijames' play Kill Move Paradise is to think about other plays where the characters can’t find their way out. It’s tempting to think of the play as similar to Sartre’s No Exit or maybe Beckett’s Endgame. In all

I’m a sucker for festivals. There’s something about seeing one narrative after another after another. For me, it’s not just about losing yourself in the stories, it’s about what it does to time and the people with you. In a perfect world, you enter in the

A good way in to playwright James Ijames' play Kill Move Paradise is to think about other plays where the characters can’t find their way out. It’s tempting to think of the play as similar to Sartre’s No Exit or maybe Beckett’s Endgame. In all