Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd is my favorite musical. Its combination of a beautiful score, clever lyrics and unusually gruesome subject matter is sui generis. When it’s firing on all cylinders...
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Terry Morgan
Antaeus presents “The Winter’s Tale” – reviewed
“A sad tale’s best for winter,” Shakespeare has one of his characters opine in his penultimate work, The Winter’s Tale, an odd duck of a play that’s mostly been overshadowed by his final one, The Tempest. Tale is often...
“Rite of Spring” reviewed
Pina Bausch’s ballet Rite of Spring was staged at The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with performances over four nights, February 8-11, 2024. More than thirty dancers from 13 African countries made history at...
Brian Sonia-Wallace
“Kate” at Pasadena Playhouse
A new one-person show, performed by Kate Berlant, with performances through Feb 11. The name KATE looms omnipresent over the whole theatre. The sign over the box office has been changed from “TICKETS” to “TIKATES,”...
Theatre Forty presents “Strangers on a Train”
I’ll “X” your ex, if you pop my pop. Patricia Highsmith created the now-common and devious story trope of the ‘murder swap’ for her first chilling novel, Strangers on a Train. Published in 1950...
Pauline Adamek