BEACH PEOPLE at City Garage

Rob Stevens – Haines His Way During this long, seemingly endless Heat Wave that has been plaguing Los Angeles for nearly a month, if you did not have central air or a heavy-duty air conditioner, you might have considered a day at the beach. The sun would still be unbearable, but you could cool off … Read more

OTHELLO/DESDEMONA at City Garage

Paul Birchall  – Stage Raw Playwright Charles A. Duncombe’s drama is ostensibly a riff on the play Othello. It’s not an adaptation, mind you, because the structure and plot digress wildly from the Shakespearean original — but it is a work involving some of the same themes with basically the same set of characters. Read more… Now running … Read more

BULGAKOV/MOLIERE at City Garage, Bergamot Station

Myron Meisel – The Hollywood Reporter In the real world, does integrity merely consist of managing to compromise just enough to get what you desire, while permitting yourself not to feel compromised? So the Devil rather persuasively argues in this often pointed, intricately conceived set of nested Matryoshka dolls depicting three different epochs, each worthy … Read more