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I wasn’t scheduled to review any productions on the weekend
Life is like that, as you know… Feast or Famine! With quite a few intriguing upcoming plays on my roster, this time I’ll give you a “sneak peek” of plays to come. I do hope you’ll mark your “playtime” calendars…and see some of them. “Waiting for Lefty” Opening Sept. 3 at Theater West. This compellingly [...]
“Waiting for Lefty” Classic Play At Theatre West
“Waiting For Lefty” takes place at a union meeting of New York taxi drivers, where the cabbies contemplate a strike. It’s really a corrupt company union, and the cabbies will never get anywhere unless they form their own honest union. They await the arrival of Lefty, their elected chairman. Meanwhile, playwright Clifford Odets lets the [...]
Two new reviews this week…
And one “repeat” review from last week, with The Tolucan Times’ apologies for last week’s errors. On the Fritz At the gorgeous El Portal Main Stage Theatre- Self created and performed “solo” …this is a wildly entertaining and brain-teasing show! I loved every zany moment! Having enjoyed Fritz’s two previous “one man” plays over the [...]
A Wither’s Tale Turns Away Melancholy
Successfully blending high drama with high camp, “A Wither’s Tale” joins the long line of entertaining Troubadour Theater Company shows. The production smartly weaves tunes by soul singer Bill Withers into William Shakespeare’s somber tale to emphasize major plot points. Jealous King Leontes (Matt Walker) suspects his wife Hermoine (Monica Schneider) and his friend King [...]
Father Knows Best? Is There An App For That?
It’s no secret that traditional roles for men and women have shattered into a million pieces recently. Daddy doesn’t have just one job, he has multiple interests, and Mommy’s got a career of her own. In fact, many families these days have to check their e-mail just to keep track of each other. It’s into [...]
The Comedy Tour That Goes On and Naan
Quiz time: Which of these descriptors do not belong with the others? Indian. Vietnamese. Jewish. Stand-up comic? Your answer: None of the above. At least, that’s the case with the Mahatma Moses Comedy tour, which will be making its first foray into Southern California after selling out shows in the San Francisco Bay area. The [...]
Memoirs of a Mulatto
This a gem of a one-woman show, about Juliette, who’s learned the hard way how to find her place in the world, and in turn find love, strength, and most of all, herself. Many playwrights and writers before her have dealt with the daunting experience of being black in America – James Baldwin (Notes of [...]
Well, we finally got a few days that were hot enough to grumble about
While most of the country has sweltered this summer, we’ve been lucky in Southern California… Eat the Runt Written by Avery Crozier with mind-boggling brilliance… This one will twist your brain! One of the most innovative, funny, wildly creative, ingenious, and theatrically challenging staged concepts I’ve ever seen! Also, one of the trickiest to “review,” [...]
Is it Real or “Reel”?
I have had enough of reality television! Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors. The genre has existed is some form or another since the early years of television (primarily with game shows), but [...]
What Goes Around Comes Around in Karma, the Musical
You can’t have a future without a past or present; every experience, interaction and choice shapes one’s destiny. Karma, the Musical is based on the premise that you can’t get to where you are unless you follow the road that leads you there, looking in the mirror along the way. As a close friend always [...]
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