Are you letting a bad mood ruin your day? For some people the feeling of gloominess or depression is due to neuro-chemical or hormonal imbalances and for others it’s the daily stress or upsetting events […]

Editor-at-Large The Blue Room, a guest production at the Odyssey Theatre, is a pretty perfect play, if you can handle its graphic nature. The acting is superb, featuring a two-member cast who play multiple characters. […]

Editor-at-Large Resolving childhood parental conflicts is sometimes a life-long struggle.  Some psychologists say that these experiences are grooved into the brain and it takes years of therapy and tens of thousands of dollars to retrain […]

Editor-at-Large In what can only be described as a masturbatory exercise in debating the effects of feminism, Joanna Murray-Smith’s pseudo-intellectual farce, The Female of the Species, made its American premiere at the Geffen Playhouse.  The […]

Editor-at-Large In 1965, William Wyler directed The Collector (based on a novel by John Fowles) starring Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar. The unforgettable film is the story of a socially retarded young man with sociopathic […]

(1) HERB KATZ, a five-term City Councilmember and Mayor in 2007-2008, passed away January 7 after a long-term battle with cancer; he was 78. Mayor Ken Genser mourned Katz as “one of Santa Monica’s great […]

An aging, unpopular teacher reaches a crossroads at which life’s big questions stare him down en masse. The Browning Version,– Terence Rattigan’s 1949 play, follows English schoolmaster Andrew Crocker-Harris (an entirely breathtaking Bruce French) on […]

Editor-at-Large Mary Poppins, the world’s most famous nanny, has floated into town with her carpetbag full of fascinating tricks and has landed quite gracefully on the stage of the Ahmanson Theatre. This dazzling production, a […]

Editor-at-Large There’s a real treat awaiting theatre goers at The Ruskin Group Theatre. The latest production is a revival of John Patrick Shanley’s cockeyed romantic triangle involving two life-long friends, Aldo and Huey, both of […]

Editor-at-Large Considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature, and the most popular playwright of his day, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known by his stage name of Moliere, left behind an enduring body […]