Gordon Gekko may have articulated the Reagan era’s ethos when he proclaimed “Greed is good” in Oliver Stone’s 1987 Wall Street, but in terms of ethics Captain Greedy is not good - although when it comes to sheer showmanship and...
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01 October 2017
This co-production launching a collaboration between the Fountain Theatre and Los Angeles City College’s Theatre Academy tells the story of real life dancer Freddy Herko (Marty Dew) largely through choreography (by Cate Caplin) and a...
29 September 2017
In The Last Tycoon F. Scott Fitzgerald rather famously quipped, “There are no second acts in American lives.” But I’m glad this isn’t true about drama, because I started drifting off during the first act of A Noise Within’s...
18 September 2017
DEMOCRACY (SIC) Theater Review
The Democracy Zone: Theater of the People, By the People, For the People
By Ed Rampell
Don Williams’ com-dram democracy (sic) ...
16 September 2017
Dziga Vertov’s The Man with the Movie Camera
V.I. Pudovkin’s short Chess Fever...
15 September 2017
As the Nazis ride again, British playwright Oliver Cotton’s brilliant play Daytona is about how fascism impacts and haunts survivors throughout their lives (and those are the “lucky” ones!) and what may be the first postwar “...
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