Pasadena Playhouse

One of my favorite fall, theater traditions is going to the Getty Villa. Almost every fall since 2006, I make a pilgrimage of sorts to the outdoor amphitheater in a Malibu cannon to experience a production of Greek or Roman theater. Looking back, some of the early productions were a

There are times in the theater when you feel that you might be witnessing a playwright working something out. Sometimes that’s thrilling because the depth of the playwright’s inquiry is exciting and maybe even revelatory. Other times, you feel like you’re stuck on a scavenger hunt and

It’s time to celebrate the incredible festival of Black theater that just happened across Los Angeles. Theater companies from across the city banded together from Pasadena to Westwood to celebrate almost half a century of Black playwrights from August Wilson and George C. Wolf to James Ijames and Michael

Jelly’s Last Jam at the Pasadena Playhouse is a beast of a production. The remount of George C. Wolfe’s musical take on the life of Jelly Roll Morton originally premiered at the Mark Taper Forum in 1991. The show opens as Jelly Roll dies and is confronted with

Pasadena Playhouse has finally hit its stride and I’m excited to see the classic George C. Wolfe musical, Jelly’s Last Jam, open June 2nd through June 23rd. The Geffen Playhouse has brought back Helder Guimarães for his latest one-man magic show (wrapped in a story) — The Hope Theory

If you love theater, you become very familiar with loss. Not just because so many plays have loss at their core, but because the art form itself is so ephemeral. You sit in a theater, experience something extraordinary, and then, poof, it vanishes. Unlike a favorite painting or poem or