…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’
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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
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An hour before the premiere of “What We Do,” directed by Polina Ionina and presented by The How, I was dragging my feet and running… Read More »What They Did: A Review of “What We Do”
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Whatever political realities may have prompted Animus Theatre Company’s captivating revival of Irish dramatist Frank McGuinness’s Someone Who’ll Watch over Me, the universally human dimensions… Read More »An Englishman, an Irishman and an American Wake Up in Plato’s Cave