by Gil Kaan | Feb 1, 2012 | Featured, Theater and Dance |
“Art,” the 1998 Tony Award winner for Best Drama, gets a smooth polish from nine-time Emmy Award-winning director David Lee in The Pasadena Playhouse’s current re-mount. Playwright Yasmina Reza’s (who also wrote the 2009 Tony Award-winning “God of...
by Gil Kaan | Jan 26, 2012 | Theater and Dance |
Ree-dic-u-lousss!!! So over the top, “Fairy Tale Theatre – 18 & Over” really works at keeping the audience entertained — alternately howling, enchanted, and grossed out for 85 intermission-less minutes! Never heard fairy tales like these as a kid! The show,...
by Gil Kaan | Jan 19, 2012 | Theater and Dance |
For a compelling hour, performance duo Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith entertain and inform as they deconstruct their creative choreography process in “O(h),” currently onstage at the Actors Company Theatre. Cleverly written by this pair, the show simultaneously pays...
by Gil Kaan | Jan 10, 2012 | Theater and Dance |
Leslie Jordan’s latest autobiographical piece, “Fruit Fly,” currently onstage at the Celebration Theatre, provides 80 minutes of what he does best — storytelling. Those familiar with Jordan’s previous solo pieces (including “Like a Dog on Linoleum” and “My Trip Down...
by Gil Kaan | Nov 21, 2011 | Theater and Dance |
With playwright/actress Rochelle Duffy’s debut effort, “Prison Is Where I Learned to Fly” at the Pasadena Playhouse, the audience inadvertently gets two plays for the price of one. The “main play” seems to be the letter writing/readings of prisoner Patrick to...
