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Keith Mills, Anton Chekhov, and Seven Spots on the Sun Steven Leigh Morris – LA Weekly Keith Mills was an actor. He was other things, too. He ran, or was part of, a soft-water company in the San Gabriel Valley. He…
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WIESENTHAL at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Margaret Gray – LA Times My wife is waiting at our front door for me to finally come home from the war,” says Simon Wiesenthal as he leaves his office for the last time in Tom Dugan’s beautifully written and…
CAGED at Theatre Banshee
Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly Dermot Davis’ dark comedy is set in the elevator of an urban hi-rise and performed on a proscenium 7-feet wide by 7-feet deep. That makes it unusually problematic to stage, though the challenge is ably…
HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES at Actors Co-op
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw When Tim Kelly died in 1998, a Playbill obituary noted that he was probably the most published playwright in America, having written over 300 works for the “stock, amateur and educational” market. With amateur and/or stock being…
SAFE AT HOME: AN EVENING WITH ORSON BEAN at Pacific Resident Theatre
Pauline Adamek – Stage Raw “There’s a danger with one-man shows. What if you don’t like the performer? You’re screwed.” I’m paraphrasing, but this is a sentiment that Orson Bean articulates early into his own one-man show. The ironic implications…