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Opening the Curtain
By KCRWArts
Opening the Curtain episodes
- Unity
It's a poetic irony that a play about invasive rules might benefit from some old fashioned rules of its own.
5 min - Connecting the Dots
What's the community doing to develop and sustain its audience? What difference does a theater festival make? Or even more importantly, if it succeeded what's next?
5 min - A Theater on a Roll
This darkly comic, dysfunctional family drama revolves around 3 generations of women struggling to break free of "degenerate bad decision blood" that runs in the family.
5 min - It's All about Scale
How do you engage the Getty Villa's architecture and scale without falling prey to it? A look at CalArts Center for New Performance's production of “Prometheus Bound.”
5 min - Fall Theater Preview
Anthony Byrnes previews theatre offerings to look forward to from the Getty Villa, Boston Court Theatre, A Noise Within and Radar L.A.
5 min - A Feminist Rorschach Test
A feminist drama -- though not in the stereotypical sense -- but that all too rare species in the American Theater: a play driven by a cast of women written by a woman.
5 min - 5 min
- Large Casts: The Redemption of Small Theater"The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" is built around a simple question: if God is all forgiving, why is Judas condemned to Hell?5 min
- Take Me Back!'A Parallelogram,' Bruce Norris' new play at the Taper, is, at least conceptually, a play about time travel.5 min
- The Weight of History
Based on a historical event, playwright Kemp Powers imagines what Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown might have chatted about behind closed doors.
5 min
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