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Opening the Curtain
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Opening the Curtain episodes
- The challenge of time and space
This last weekend Taylor Mac, the fabulous drag performer and all around theatre genius, returned to the Center of the Art of Performance at UCLA with a holiday show: “Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce”.
5 min - A High Sugar "Nutcracker"
I’m a sucker for theater in non-traditional spaces so when I heard about “The Nutcracker Suite” in a skyscraper downtown - even though it was ballet - I was in.
5 min - Look for the helpers
“Come From Away”, the new show at the Ahmanson, is basically a feel-good musical about 9/11. If that sounds a little far-fetched, think of the advice to kids from Mr. Rogers: in the face of catastrophe, look to the helpers.
5 min - A mean Lear
There’s something so absurdly ambitious about Zombie Joe’s Underground production of “King Lear” - you really want it to work.
5 min - Being a Ghost Story of ChristmasWhen you enter the Geffen Playhouse for “A Christmas Carol” it feels like you may have entered a victorian funeral home. The lights are dim, there’s a waft of fog blowing on stage and what appears to be a coffin surrounded by black floral arrangements. It’s spooky. It feels like you’re about to hear a ghost story. Which you are.5 min
- Midterm Elections and the theatre
Anthony Byrnes speaks with Steve Chiotakis about theatre and the upcoming elections on All Things Considered.
6 min - An absence of responsibility
At first Eliza Clark’s play “Quack” feels like a thinly veiled take-down of a Dr. Oz-like TV doctor.
5 min - A Lie to make you care
Beyond the 6 Tony Awards and the record setting box office, what’s fascinating about the musical “Dear Evan Hansen” is how it gets an audience to care.
5 min - Breaking free from Shakespeare's Ghetto
What if “The Merchant of Venice” were told from Shylock’s daughter’s perspective? That’s the conceit behind Sarah Mantell’s play “Everything that never happened”.
5 min - A blue Jello spit take of truth
When’s the last time, in the theater, that you saw a really good, slow spit take?
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