Editor-at-Large Any time Artist Director Ron Sossi’s name is associated with a production, you can be sure you are in for a fasten-your-seat-belt evening of theatre at the famed Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, one of Los […]

Editor-at-Large  Paul Leaf’s Mutiny at Port Chicago, a world premiere play at the Ruskin Group Theatre, is a compelling story based on a little-known military disaster that took place in 1944 in San Francisco’s East […]

Editor-at-Large With helicopters hovering overhead and media trucks parked in front of the UCLA Medical Center covering the tragic passing of Michael Jackson, it was press night for the Atlantic Theater Production of Beau Willimon’s […]

Editor-at-Large Violence against women of all ages is a worldwide epidemic and to spotlight this problem, Deborah Kagan and Sacred Interiors are presenting the Obie Award-winning play, The Vagina Monologues, 8p.m. Friday, March 27 at […]

Editor-at-Large The Ruskin Group Theatre is one of Santa Monica’s treasures. A hotbed of activity under the leadership of Artistic Director John Ruskin and its energetic young producer Mike Myers, the theatre has been home […]

Editor-at-Large Start with a beautifully crafted script by Donald Margulies, skillfully directed by Daniel Sullivan, add to that a most talented ensemble framed by an excellent set designed by John Lee Beatty and lighting by […]

Editor-at-Large Every once in a while, a play comes along that reminds us how special theater can be when it lives up to its potential, and Butterfly Wings, by award-winning playwright G. Bruce Smith, is […]

Editor-at-Large A Majority of One by Leonard Spigelgass was originally produced on Broadway in 1959, with Gertrude Berg playing Mrs. Jacoby, a Jewish widow living in Brooklyn. The play ran for 551 performances at the […]

Editor-at-Large Staged against a most magnificent set designed by Neil Patel consisting of an assortment of cubes in various positions, and a dazzling light design by David Weiner complementing the various moods of this complex […]

Editor-at-Large For fans of mob humor, Faithful, written by Chazz Palminteri three years before the wildly successful television series The Sopranos, is a delightful black comedy about domestic betrayal and redemption currently in revival at […]