F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw The current playing area — a compact dell at the top of the Old Zoo in Griffith Park — suffices as a stopgap measure for this in-the-round staging until the company’s new stage near the park’s old bear caves is completed. While the dell is a pleasant location in … Read more
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw One of the reasons for the continued popularity of Shakespeare’s work over the centuries is how unusually open it is to reinterpretation — directors or actors can use it as a lens with which to focus anew on some aspect of the world.Read more… Erin Conley – On Stage & … Read more
Paul Birchall – Stage Raw I am not sure why it comes as a surprise that Zombie Joe’s Underground, the ferociously imaginative theater company on Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood, should so ably create this sweet, artful candy box of an adaptation of Shakespeare’s frivolous rustic comedy. Read more… Now running through June 19
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Sometimes staging Shakespeare in a period piece setting adds color and spark. Other times, this sort of stage dressing proves either a distraction and/or irrelevant to the production as a whole. Both is the case with director Ellen Geer’s current mounting of As You Like It, which is set in mid … Read more