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Opening the Curtain
By KCRWArts
Opening the Curtain episodes
- The Soul of Fela!
When you think of the music and life of Fela Kuti, a broadway musical isn’t the first thing that comes to mind.
5 min - The Two Sides of Consistency
The Troubadour Theater Company works its unique brand of magic on 'A Christmas Story.'
5 min - The Night Watcher
Anthony Byrnes reviews The Night Watcher, which is up at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City through December 18.
5 min - A Hate Crime and a Kiss
What's the responsibility of a plot point? That's the question Anthony Byrnes asks after seeing Diana Son's Stop Kiss at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood.
5 min - LA Theater: A Study in White?
Anthony Byrnes on language, diversity and The Romance of Magno Rubio at [Inside] the Ford.
5 min - The Responsibility of Space
After 20 years, A Noise Within has already built something astounding: a home. Can they answer the tough questions the space asks about their art?
5 min - A Play Called Hope
On its surface Hope: Part II of a Mexican Trilogy, by Evelina Fernandez, is a play about a Mexican-American nuclear family in the 1960's...
5 min - Adult Culpability and Childhood InnocencePlaywright Gregory Moss' House of Gold begins with a challenge. The setting: a suburban Colorado kitchen. A husband sits at the breakfast table while his wife...5 min
- The Poetry of Fluid Time
Tucked into the third floor of the Alexandria Hotel in downtown LA is the Company of Angels tiny, black box theater. There's something wonderfully disorienting about the...
5 min - Cowboys and Dinosaurs
The Dinosaur Within, by playwright John Walch at Boston Court in Pasadena, is built around paleontology and coincidence. Let's start with the Paleontology. What is it?
5 min
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