Wallis Annenberg Center

DUNSINANE at the Wallis Annenberg Center

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Paul Birchall  – Stage Raw Playwright David Grieg’s compelling drama is a sequel of sorts to Shakespeare’s Macbeth.  Given that just about everyone is dead at the end of Shakespeare’s play, one could well ask “what on earth can happen in a sequel to Macbeth?”  Do the Three Witches move on down to Fort Lauderdale to get … Read more

ENTER LAUGHING at the Wallis Annenberg Center

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Margaret Gray – LA Times Enter Laughing,” Carl Reiner’s semi-autobiographical 1958 novel, has had nearly as varied a career as its author. Playwright Joseph Stein (“Fiddler on the Roof”) turned it into a Broadway play (1963), a film (1967), a Broadway musical that famously flopped (1976) and then, with director Stuart Ross, a successful off-Broadway … Read more