Ed Rampell – Hollywood Progressive
In his 1960 play “Waiting in the Wings,” Coward bravely took aim at the one foe no human can overcome: Death. In addition, the bold British bard dared tackle another thing avoided like the plague by our youth obsessed culture but which anyone who lives out his/her natural life span must also face: Old age. And to top it all off, in the male dominated field of the stage, most of Wings’ dramatis personae are not only female – but “women of a certain age.” Read more…
Philip Brandes – Stage Raw
Founded in the 1950s as a Topanga Canyon refuge for artists purged during the Hollywood blacklist, the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum might have been expressly destined to one day stage Noël Coward’s 1960s play about a refuge for performers discarded by the pitiless profit-minded profession of show business. Read more…