Month: September 2017

Theater Review: Head of Passes at Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum

September 26, 2017

“One day you will know what it means to hold onto something.” In Head of Passes, a play by Academy Award winner Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight), a dying family matriarch is struggling to hold onto a lot of things—her literally crumbling home at the mouth of the Mississippi River, her health, and her complicated relationships … More Theater Review: Head of Passes at Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum

Theater Review: Big Night at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre

September 23, 2017

We all remember June 12, 2016, when 49 people were shot and killed at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, in a terrorist attack and hate crime. Some may also remember that this horrible tragedy, the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since September 11, 2001, fell on the eve of that year’s Tony … More Theater Review: Big Night at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre

Theater Review: Runaway Home at the Fountain Theatre

September 17, 2017

How do you rebuild after a tragedy changes everything? This question is one of many posed in Runaway Home, a play by Jeremy J. Kamps currently in its world premiere at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles. Set in the Lower 9th Ward neighborhood of New Orleans three years after Hurricane Katrina, this beautifully written, … More Theater Review: Runaway Home at the Fountain Theatre

Theater Review: A Tale of Two Cities at A Noise Within

September 11, 2017

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens has been a staple of western literature since its publication in 1859, and has been adapted many times over—as movies, television mini-series, radio shows, a short-lived Broadway musical, and plays. Writer Mike Poulton’s new play … More Theater Review: A Tale of Two Cities at A Noise Within