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...
Category - Review
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
Now playing at the Pasadena Playhouse – “Kate”
I find one-person shows one of the most difficult types of theatre to review, for several reasons. If the quality of the writing or performance isn’t good, there may be nothing but negative aspects to report, which is...
Terry Morgan
Review: Slamdance World Premiere ‘Brando with a Glass Eye’
Yiannis Niarros impresses as a method actor who finds himself becoming unable to separate performance from real life in writer/director Antonis Tsonis’s mesmerizing film.
Kurt Gardner