Theatre

	‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Heats Up the Kirk Douglas Theatre By Frederik Sisa @ 3:00 PM January 27, 2012 Found in: Theatre It always puzzles me when fellow critics take notes during a performance. I’ll notice them scribbling away on their note pads or in the margins of the press kit – sometimes sedately, sometimes madly – and wonder how they can possibly foster an osmotic relationship with the performance. read
	‘The Robber Bridegroom’: Amusing, but a Barn Short of a Hootennany By Frederik Sisa @ 9:00 AM October 19, 2011 Found in: Theatre Based on the 1942 novella by Eudora Welty, which itself is a relatively cheery adaptation of a gruesome tale from the Brothers Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom took on life as a musical in the 1970s with producer Stuart Ostrow’s Musical Theatre Lab. read
	Richard III: Loud and Glib at the Theatricum By Frederik Sisa @ 2:00 PM July 08, 2011 Found in: Theatre Don’t let the program fool you; the casting of two actors in the role of Richard III isn’t a sign that the Theatricum has developed an appetite for the avant-garde or the experimental. read
	The Old Settler: Beautiful Theatre at the ICT Long Beach By Frederik Sisa @ 10:00 AM June 10, 2011 Found in: Theatre In the parlance of World War II Harlem, an old settler is a woman long past what society considers the peak age for marriage; a spinster. read
	The Amazing Middle School Thespians and Their Technicolor Talents By Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 PM May 23, 2011 Found in: Theatre The toughest assignment in yesterday afternoon’s closing performance of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” went to six sassy girls — thank heaven, at 11, 12, 13 and 14 years old, they still are smart enough to allow themselves to be called girls instead of women, persecuted feminists, ladies, non-men, matrons or however many genders are running free now. read
	Southern Comforts: The Sun Never Sets on Love at the ICT By Frederik Sisa @ 7:00 AM March 23, 2011 Found in: Theatre At the least, Southern Comforts stands out as a declaration that the capacity to love has no expiration date. But the play and its production at the International City Theatre in Long Beach rates as more than a sly, sideways manifesto in rebuttal to society’s ageism. read
	Urine Good Company if You Choose to See This Play By Ari L. Noonan @ 2:00 PM March 11, 2011 Found in: Theatre For an evening that tastes like a sumptuous dessert guaranteed to add half a foot to your waistline, sprint, don’t just amble on over to the creaky old Robert Frost Auditorium on the Culver City High School campus. ,br/>read
	An Enchanting Dance Recital by India’s Rama Vaidyanathan By Frederik Sisa @ 4:00 PM November 24, 2010 Found in: Theatre After the evening’s performance at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Center, Shakti Dance Company founder and Bharata Natyam guru Viji Prakash took to the stage and articulated what I had been thinking all along. While the music and dance are richly rewarding for people well-versed in the compositional intricacies of classical Indian music and the kinetic language of Bharata Natyam, the novice aficionado can just as easily and fully be elevated, inspired and moved. The vernacular gives way to the universal, the senses become engaged in the music and costumes, and cultures comes together in a shared experience of beauty. read
	Break the Whip Whips it Good By Frederik Sisa @ 11:00 AM October 06, 2010 Found in: Theatre The Actor's Gang, one of L.A.’s most consistently magical troupes, can always be relied upon to deliver theatre that channels our era's nebulous zeitgeist. read
	All for Dumas and Dumas for All at Theatricum By Frederik Sisa @ 12:00 PM June 28, 2010 Found in: Theatre A larger-than-life story like Alexandre Dumas’s classic adventure needs room for swords to clash, dastardly villains to plot and heroes to save the day. Movie adaptations of “The Three Musketeers” benefit from expansive locations and sets, along with the illusion provided by camera angles. Ellen Geer’s theatrical adaptation benefits from the outdoor amphitheatre space of the Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon. read