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The Dramaturg: Hollywood’s Greatest Fake Play: The Semis, pt. 2 27 Aug 2013 | 08:49 pm
The Simpsons episode featuring “Stop The Planet of the Apes. I Want To Get Off” (hereafter referred to as STPOTAIWTGO) is titled “A Fish Called Selma” and comes from 1996, the tail end of a fairly sal...
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER (SIERRA MADRE PLAYHOUSE): 100% – SWEET 27 Aug 2013 | 08:51 am
SWEET This polished and entertaining adaptation of Mark Twain’s coming-of-age classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a rare case of family entertainment done well. Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly SWEET I...
RED (INTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE): 100% – SWEET 27 Aug 2013 | 01:27 am
SWEET In a season that has already included memorable stagings of Around The World In 80 Days, Master Class, and Dead Man’s Cell Phone, this very first made-for-L.A. production of John Logan’s Red onc...
The Monday Moment 27 Aug 2013 | 12:50 am
Some simple, yet ever so entraining theater from a couple of Japanese clowns to get your Monday going. Hat tip to Ernest Kearney for sending it over.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (ACTOR’S GANG): 87% – SWEET 27 Aug 2013 | 12:46 am
BITTERSWEET The holiday humor of the play wears thin in the final stages of Robbins’ production, which could use a stronger shaping hand. The pacing stalls, and the scenes get a bit smudgy as the logi...
Operation LemonHeadMeter: Help Bitter Lemons Raise $7500 26 Aug 2013 | 11:53 pm
A week from today, on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013, at exactly 9am, we will be launching a Kickstarter campaign known as Operation LemonHeadMeter. We are counting on your help. We’ve been putting this...
Critique of the Week 25 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Uncle Steven puts together a sublime double-offering on the healing powers of parody and mockery. Again, not allowed to publish the whole thing by the LAWee powers so I give you excerpts. EL GRANDE DE...
The Bad, Bad Play 25 Aug 2013 | 11:07 am
When you’re first writing a play, your fingers fly across the keyboard not quite fast enough to keep up with your optimism. Optimism doesn’t cover it: giddy certainty, rather. This new project is goin...
The Problem with “Much Ado About Nothing” 25 Aug 2013 | 09:03 am
As mentioned in an earlier article, my first introduction to Shakespeare was a production of Taming of the Shrew when I was eleven; my second was a Much Ado About Nothing when I was twelve, and I’ll b...
Go for the Half-Naked Green Dancing Moth Sluts… 25 Aug 2013 | 01:50 am
…and stay for a fun night at the theater. As is usually the case when seeing a show at Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre. Even when they miss, they hit. Which is happily not the case with their current...
