UNEMPLOYED ELEPHANTS at the Little Victory Theatre

Ellen Dostal – BroadwayWorld Playwright Wendy Graf is best known for her uniquely dramatic works such as PLEASE DON’T ASK ABOUT BECKET, ALL AMERICAN GIRL, and NO WORD IN GUYANESE FOR ME. But, in her latest world premiere, UNEMPLOYED ELEPHANTS – A LOVE STORY, she takes a lighter – and more formulaic – approach to her subject.Read … Read more

THE ALL-AMERICAN GIRL – InterACT Theatre Company at the Lounge Theatre

Myron Meisel – Stage Raw Why the devil do we do the things we do? And what kind of answers are genuinely responsive and illuminating to that question of “Why?”  Easier to examine the confounding deeds of other people and endeavor to find clues in the motivations we attribute to (or project upon) them for … Read more

CLOSELY RELATED KEYS at the Lounge Theatre

Deborah Klugman – ArtsBeatLA Sporting a message of sisterhood and tolerance, Wendy Graf’s well-intentioned but clumsy drama builds around two half-sisters: Julia (Diarra Kilpatrick), an ambitious attorney living and working in Manhattan, and Neyla (Yvonne Huff), her newly discovered sibling, whom Julia’s father had sired when he was a soldier in Iraq.   Read more… Dany Margolies  –  Arts … Read more