Month August 2014

BULRUSHER at the Skylight Theatre

Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Eisa Davis’s drama about an 18-year-old motherless clairvoyant exhibits an element of magic that manifests most richly in this production’s opening moments. Read more… Myron Meisel – The Hollywood Reporter 1955 was the summer of tortured…

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TRYING at International City Theatre

Melinda Schupmann – Arts In LA A theatrical reminiscence by Joanna McClelland Glass about a time when she served as secretary to Judge Francis Biddle gets a standout production at International City Theatre. Its casting choices—Tony Abatemarco playing Biddle, Paige Lindsey White…

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THE SEAGULL at the Pico House

Pauline Adamek  – Stage Raw Downtown Rep company has selected an historic building in which to stage Anton Chekhov’s 1895 bourgeois family drama, his first major play. The central courtyard of Pico House serves admirably for the company’s semi-modern production…

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