Pasadena Playhouse

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

I’ll be honest, I’m a theater junkie. If I go too long between seeing a good play (not just a play, a good play) I get a little grumpy. There’s something about the magic of entering into the world of a play, surrounded by a community, by

Normally, a trip to the Getty Villa’s fall theater productions is an exercise in making the past present. The Getty’s goal, loosely stated, is to give a new life to Greek and Roman classic plays. Like any production of a classic text, the challenge is making the text

There are nights when you walk into a play and before the first line is spoken you know you’re in for a remarkable experience. Tarrell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size at the Geffen Playhouse is one of those nights. The irony, when you walk into the small theater

It’s hard to imagine the perfect audience for Neil LaBute’s world-premiere play, If I Needed Someone, at City Garage. It’s late at night and we’re in Jules’ studio apartment. She invited Jim over after a night out. They stopped at a bodega on the way home