by Penny Orloff | Jul 31, 2010 | Theater and Dance |
“The process is completely fascinating,” says longtime theater lover Abigail Paine, as she leaves the small West Los Angeles theater. “It really feels like a privilege to have watched something as unusual as ‘New York Animals’ evolve at Rogue Machine.” Paine says she...
by Penny Orloff | May 21, 2010 | Theater and Dance |
I love ballet. I love the grace, the magic, the sheer beauty of it all. But, once in a while, ballet isn’t merely attractive young dancers in white tutus, assembling in lovely tableaus to strains of Mozart and Delibes. Once in a while, ballet is the tumultuous and...
by Penny Orloff | May 12, 2010 | Theater and Dance |
From May 15 to 30, the Los Angeles Ballet finishes its fourth season with the unveiling of four contemporary world premieres by acclaimed guest choreographers Mandy Moore, Travis Wall, and Sonya Tayeh of the FOX TV hit, “So You Think You Can Dance,” and LA’s Josie...
by Penny Orloff | Apr 27, 2010 | Featured, Theater and Dance |
An increasingly agitated audience greeted the world premiere of J.M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World at Dublin’s Abbey Theater in 1907. Good Irish lads sang patriotic songs and shouted, “Kill the author!” Howls of outrage escalated to fistfights,...
by Penny Orloff | Mar 31, 2010 | Theater and Dance |
Clifford Odets’ first play, “Awake and Sing,” is considered his masterpiece. A fortuitous product of zeitgeist, psychosocial climate and synchronicity, the work has become a holy relic of Depression-era American culture. Glendale’s estimable classical theater rep...
