Evan Henerson sees a lot of plays in a movie town. He has written for Backstage, Stage Directions, and is the former theater critic for the Los Angeles Daily News. E-mail Evan at EHenerson@sbcglobal.net.
What’s inside that egg, anyway? What is it about that largish here and gone again container that’s got the denizens of a Cirque du Soleil imagined insect community so, well, buggy? “Ovo!” shouts Master...
10 Reasons Why David Cromer’s is Now the Definitive Production of “Our Town.” In no particular order…1. Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” in the hands of most professional, amateur and...
The fact that people – Lone Star State politicos or otherwise – can no longer sit down and shoot the bull with Molly Ivins is a tragedy. We still have her books and archives of her endlessly wry and hilarious...
First to the hugely trivial: Sahr Ngaujah, the Tony nominated star of “Fela!” and the portrayer of its subject, Nigerian singer/activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, is likely one of the few men on this or any other planet...
Oh what a beautiful venue!Not to paraphrase a Rodgers and Hammerstein lyric or anything, but the classical repertory company A Noise Within has worked and begged and campaigned and waited and sweated for that interesting looking new home on...
Charlayne Woodard begins her latest solo show “The Night Watcher” considering - and ultimately declining - the opportunity to become a mother. Two astonishing hours later, the actress has presented compelling evidence both that this early choice was the...
The temptation to sneer, carp or otherwise dismiss is considerable. I like to think I’m as spirit-replete as the next enthusiast, but come on already.We have, after all, a story that opens with a peppy blonde...
“What was that?” Adam asks Luke, the flame who has just cooked him a killer breakfast but who paused enigmatically before taking his first bite. “Where did you just go?”
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What does it signify that on an opening night of a ballyhooed show in a major market (cue the Hollywood Boulevard glitz, the professional autograph hounds and the obligatory...