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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Los Angeles Theater Review: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (A Noise Within in Pasadena) by Barnaby Hughes

A NEGLECTED CLASSIC GONE AWRY The story of Antony and Cleopatra shares with Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet those two indispensable elements of tragedy: love and death. While Romeo and …

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Saturday, March 3, 2012

Los Angeles Theater Review: A FEW GOOD MEN (Sky Lounge in North Hollywood) by Barnaby Hughes

RISE ABOVE THEATRE MOVEMENT HANDLES THE TRUTH Just three years after Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men (1989) was produced on Broadway, the play’s popularity was eclipsed by the film…

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Los Angeles Theater Review: BABY DOLL (Elephant Theatre Company) by Barnaby Hughes

A TENNESSEE WILLIAMS CARICATURE A number of theatres in Los Angeles have marked the 100th anniversary of Tennessee Williams’ birth by staging productions of his plays. Following upon t…

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Los Angeles Theater Review: THE ROMANCE OF MAGNO RUBIO ([Inside] the Ford) by Barnaby Hughes

A FOOL-IPINO FOR LOVE Just as the "problem" of immigration continues to be debated by our politicians, so does it continue to be presented in our theaters. Earlier this year, in the springti…

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Friday, October 28, 2011

Los Angeles Theater Review: ALL MY SONS (Matrix Theatre) by Barnaby Hughes

AN ANACHRONISTIC LOOK AT RACE IN AMERICA There’s no doubt that Arthur Miller’s 1947 play All My Sons is an astonishing piece of theatre. Not only is the writing brilliant, but th…

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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Los Angeles Theater Review: IRIS (Cirque du Soliel) by Barnaby Hughes

CIRQUE DU CINEMA When Quebec-based artistic troupe Cirque du Soleil creates a new resident production, they typically design the building to fit the show. Not so with Cirque du Soleil’…

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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Los Angeles Theater Review: CARNEVIL: A GOTHIC HORROR ROCK MUSICAL (Sacred Fools Theatre) by Barnaby Hughes

FAUSTIAN PHANTASMAGORIA "There is nothing new under the sun," said a Jewish writer more than two thousand years ago. While such a sentiment may not have been intended to discourage creativit…

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