Summer is for Shakespeare, usually in the park, but this season, Macbeth is blooming everywhere like Scottish thistles. At New York's Lincoln Center, Alan Cummin
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The Hollywood Fringe Festival continues through August in an extended program, The Best of Hollywood Fringe, sponsored by a trio local theaters: Actors Circle Theatr
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In our new column, First Person, L.A. writers tackle the good, the bad and the funny about life as they know it.The other day, a duck flew into our backyard, in one
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Not meaning to beat a dead horse, but seeing a triple-header of local stage productions on Saturday brought into stark counterpoint my respect for local theater and
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After a too-long hiatus, Kyle T. Wilson has resuscitated his thoughtful blog on arts, culture and politics, Frank's Wild Lunch, with a response to L.A. Times
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The National Theatre of Great Britain has brought an infantry of more than three dozen performers to the Ahmanson Theatre, in the form of its touring, epic staging o
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Writer-performer-comic Kristina Wong riffs on her beloved green movement in her solo satire Going Green the Wong Way, extended at Bootleg before an Edinburgh run in
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Critic Bill Raden was struck by both a new sci-fi musical Earthbound, this week's Pick of the Week, as well as by the intensity of a production of Stephen Belber
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Playwright-director Guy Zimmerman dedicated his new 60-minute play in two scenes, The Black Glass, to the protesters of Occupy Wall Street. This is a fair indication
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At first it's annoying but eventually it seems fitting that Jon Courie's 90-minute play should so resemble a sitcom. Set in a dreary North Hollywood apartmen
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The third annual Hollywood Fringe festival is now history, and this L.A. Weekly best of award goes to Eric Davis' demonic Red Bastard. Also check out this week&
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Writer-performer-comic Kristina Wong riffs on her beloved green movement in her solo satire Going Green the Wong Way, extended at Bootleg before an Edinburgh run in
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