::STOP PRESS:: The Smash HIT Theatrical Event of the Summer EXTENDS through SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2024 at the Whitley Theatre in Hollywood! Did you ever see a show that left your cheeks aching...
Category - Theater
Pauline Adamek
Ruskin presents “The Substance of Fire”
The first time I read Jon Robin Baitz’s 1991 play, The Substance of Fire, and later saw the film made from it, I liked it. I wasn’t alone – the success of that play catapulted Baitz into theater stardom and garnered Ron...
Terry Morgan
“Unbroken Blossoms” review
Beautifully written by Philip W. Chung, Unbroken Blossoms is a new play that drops us into Hollywood during the late teens. Still wounded from the criticism and accusations of racism for his ambitious spectacle, the...
“Psycho Beach Party”
It may be less well known now, but back in the 1960s, the character of surfer girl Gidget was popular and influential, the subject of novels, films and TV series starring the likes of Sandra Dee and Sally Field. The...
Geffen Playhouse presents “Tiny Father” – reviewed
Tiny Father, written by Mike Lew, feels like one of those plays based on real events that the playwright feels compelled to illuminate. The story begins in a low-lit but sterile-looking hospital room. A man is nervously...
