THE LAST SHIP at the Ahmanson Theatre
Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen At first blush, the shipbuilding industry does not seem the most obvious topic for a musical. The Last Ship, an original musical with music and lyrics by Sting and a new book by…
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EARTHQUAKES IN LONDON at Rogue Machine Theatre
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw The phrase, “Nero fiddled while Rome burned” is used to describe doing something trivial when serious action is desperately required. It’s an apt epigram for humanity today — fully aware of the worsening disasters brought…
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME at the Mark Taper Forum
Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen When playwright Heidi Schreck was in high school, she traveled the country participating in Constitutional debate competitions. It was primarily a scheme cooked up by her mother to pay for college tuition with…
DISPOSABLE NECESSITIES at Rogue Machine Theatre
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw The adage, “Youth is wasted on the young,” is generally attributed to George Bernard Shaw, a man who didn’t lack for adages. The idea that youth can also be wasted on the old is one…
SAFE HARBOR at the Zephyr Theatre
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Last year’s arrest of wealthy financier and pal-to-the-powerful Jeffery Epstein on charges related to the sex trafficking of minors sent salacious shock waves throughout the country via the headline-hunting national media.Read more… Now running through…