Opening the Curtain

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The Pacific Resident Theatre takes on Shakespeare's "Henry V," in a production that's beautifully and quirkily cast.

Two stages in downtown LA couldn't be more different in scale and yet are oddly both resurrecting the past and relying on the power of form to tell the hidden stories.

Mikhail Baryshnikov returns to the Broad Stage, this time in a collaboration with New York's Big Dance Theater, adapting two Chekhov short stories of missed love.

City Garage's ambitious new world premiere examines state corruption, religious hypocrisy, gratuitous nudity and, for good measure, the cowardice of the state.

"The Suit" at UCLA is a tale of the tragedy of humiliation.

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Broad Stage makes sense of Shakespeare's language and creates an enchanted world where love is both magical and terrifying.

Unfortunately,

Is LA theater suffering from a lack of critical response, or is it no longer worthy of broad coverage because it's no longer giving voice to Los Angeles?

Poor Dog Group, whose "Five Small Fires" is currently up at the Bootleg Theatre, have been something like that rare, blooming flower--often talked about but seldom seen.