Pasadena Playhouse

When coming out of a busy subway stop in the '80s, you might be lucky enough (or unlucky enough) to come across a game of three-card monte. The game is near a guy with a cheap briefcase of counterfeit Rolexes caught up in a swirl of steam escaping a

Let’s get this out of the way up front: if you can get a ticket to see the Geffen Playhouse’s Waiting for Godot, do. It's not to be missed. Got your ticket? Okay, let’s dive in. Waiting for Godot is one of those plays. The

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