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 […]

It has been said that “the worst meal you’ll ever have in France, will be the best meal you’ve ever tasted.”  The Loire Valley, comprised of six cities all designated as UNESCO World Heritage sites, […]

Editor-at-Large One Red Flower, produced and created by Emmy-award winning director Paris Barclay, was presented as a staged reading at the Brentwood Theatre last weekend only as a special benefit supporting New Directions and Rubicon […]

Editor-at-Large The stage set for the L.A. Theatre Ensemble’s production of Franz Wedekind’s Spring Awakening represents a wooded area, a disturbing place of dark drapes and tangled branches. It’s an apt metaphor for the troubled […]