Terry Morgan – Stage Raw
Horror is not a genre that has traditionally worked well in theater. There are certainly some outliers such as The Woman in Black, but overall spooky fare is thin on the ground, theatrically speaking. Thus when I read that the Geffen Playhouse was producing a “horror play” called The Ants this season, I was intrigued. Read more…
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage
The same is true of Ramiz Monsef’s “The Ants,” in its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood. Set in an unnamed city with rampant homelessness and rampant wealth (does this ring any bells?), the script and Pirronne Yousefzadeh’s staging kept me on the edge of my seat and provided a few laugh-out-loud moments. Read more…