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Opening the Curtain
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Opening the Curtain episodes
- 5 min
- Where Are the Hollywood Clowns?
Let's start with what works in Cirque du Soleil's $100 million spectacle Iris at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood...
5 min - Morally Bankrupt and Vacuous...but Funny
It's late. We're a couple of bottles of rose into a dinner at Ella and Peter's beautiful woodsy place outside of the city - no, not Los Angeles, New York...
5 min - The SITI Company's Questions
Trojan Women, written by Euripedes 2,400 years ago, is one of the most brutal, unrelenting anti-war plays ever created. The play takes place among the wreckage of Troy...
5 min - Ideas in Need of Passion
What is love? Really? Is it a rush of the heartbeat? Is it the dedication to a child? These are the questions in Mr. Goodspeed's AP Biology class in...
5 min - The Magic of Intimate TheaterThere's an experience you can only have in an intimate theater...There's an energy that's possible that is absolutely exhilarating...and at times horribly uncomfortable...5 min
- A Dark Night of the Soul
Sarah Kane's play 4.48 Psychosis can be read as the internal monologue of a woman as she descends into psychosis and plans her suicide...
5 min - An All Too Pretty LabyrinthThe center of the Minotaur's mythical labyrinth is not necessarily a place you want to find yourself. But I did recently - and it was stunning...5 min
- Healthcare and Humanity
Longtime Angelenos will remember Anna Deavere Smith's brilliant and haunting play called Twilight: Los Angeles about the aftermath of the Rodney King trial. She's back...
5 min - An All Too Clever Hamlet
Somewhere scrawled on a blackboard in a Shakespeare seminar is that perennial essay question "chart Hamlet's journey through his four soliloquies." Like "to be or not to be..."
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