Metal foil lines a bare stage, a black mirror warping the bodies of two barefoot couples in mourning. Two chairs, two milk crates rearrange themselves… Read More »“At Black Lake” Speaks, But What Is It Saying?
When word reached Kirill that a production of his favorite opera “The Magic Flute” was touring from his native Berlin, he somehow convinced fellow Berliner… Read More »The Threepenny Flute, or Kirill Drags Max to the Opera
…but the musical numbers are so expansive, inventive, subversive, so side-splittingly funny that one quickly catches one’s breath. This is, after all, a musical, and… Read More »Behind the Looking Glass: A Review of ‘A Strange Loop’
The machine at the center of Kafka’s In The Penal Colony carves a man’s unnamed crime into his back until, in a moment of epiphany… Read More »Man as Machine: A Review of “In the Penal Colony”
Who would have thought proposing Romeo and Juliet as a Tinder date would get a girl ghosted? I mean I get it. To someone looking… Read More »Sweet Sorrow: A Playdate Review of Romeo and Juliet
Who better to review a play about two headbutting artists than two headbutting critics? Max Raab and Kirill Antonin Zakharov talk cookies, sadomasochism, and the… Read More »An Ontological Argument: Max and Kirill Review “Crushing Baby Animals”
The first thing that struck me on my virgin tour of Los Angeles last October was the homeless problem. On a cab ride from LAX… Read More »A Modest Proposal, or Why I Did Not Attend the Hollywood Fringe Festival
You can tell a lot about a person by their sense of humor, or lack thereof. When “Doug” messaged me on Tinder and I mentioned… Read More »Playdate Reviews The Last Croissant