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Opening the Curtain

Musings on what Los Angeles theater is - and can be. Want to know more? Subscribe to Anthony"s weekly Theater newsletter.

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4:23

Following your ears back to the beginning

Opening the Curtain ·

2017/04/11

Okay, you need to stop what you're doing and go buy a ticket to see The Encounter at The Wallis. No, really, I mean it. It's only here through this Sunday and the show will change the way you listen.

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4:37

Worse than a wall

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2017/04/04

Robert Schenkkan's Building the Wall isn't theater as reflection but theater as horrified fortune teller.

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4:30

Is it the art? Or the frame?

Opening the Curtain ·

2017/03/28

Antaeus Theatre Company didn't just open Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, it also opened a brand new theater in Glendale. That's a big deal.

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4:28

The politics of naked power

Opening the Curtain ·

2017/03/21

This is Anthony Byrnes Opening the Curtain on LA Theater for KCRW. Four naked bodies onstage. Two male, two female standing facing the audience. They are bathed in amber sidelight present, exposed, powerful. They begin to move. First partnered by gender: woman with woman, man with man taking each other's weight. Placing nude body on top of nude body. Then partnered across gender: man with woman until they collapse downstage left in a pile of naked flesh that's hauntingly like a

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4:20

A young play

Opening the Curtain ·

2017/03/14

Good Grief is a young play. That's part of its charm and part of its problem, but let's resist the urge to try and make the play something it isn't.

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4:05

The Irresistible pull of memory

Opening the Curtain ·

2017/03/08

If you're the kind of person who likes a traditional musical -- you know, boy meets girl, hummable tunes, linear narrative structure to a big redemptive finish -- if that's your thing, Fun Home at the Ahmanson is probably just going to frustrate you. If, on the other hand, you’re a little more adventurous, it’s fantastic.

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4:08

When style gets in the way

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2017/03/01

Collective Rage: A Play in Five Boops should be moving, political and empowering. Unfortunately, its style gets in the way.

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4:35

Why here? Why now?

Opening the Curtain ·

2017/02/22

In the months before D-Day, American troops took over a portion of the English seaside, displacing its residents so they could rehearse the invasion of Normandy in secret...

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4:33

A complicated history

Opening the Curtain ·

2017/02/15

Zoot Suit, at the Mark Taper Forum, is an essential piece of Los Angeles' history and, painfully, our political present.

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4:40

An acrobatic whale tale

Opening the Curtain ·

2017/02/08

Lookingglass' Moby Dick is worth the trip south, just be prepared that not everything is smooth sailing.

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4:30

The politics of collaboration

Opening the Curtain ·

2017/02/01

With all due respect to composer Kurt Weill and librettist Maxwell Anderson, the story wasn't the most important thing happening on stage Saturday night during Lost in the Stars at UCLA's Royce hall.

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4:29

What makes technique, technique?

Opening the Curtain ·

2017/01/18

The Lion is a really tight solo show with remarkable guitar playing. It's a production that's filled with technique and . . . that might be part of the problem.

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4:40

A legacy of work: Gordon Davidson

Opening the Curtain ·

2017/01/11

Last night at the Ahmanson Theater, Center Theater Group held a memorial for their founding artistic director, Gordon Davidson.

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4:30

Theater for the new year

Opening the Curtain ·

2017/01/04

Anthony Byrnes previews some of the year's most intriguing upcoming performances.

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4:20

It’s all about the audience

Opening the Curtain ·

2016/12/21

Two totally different shows -- one using Shakespeare, the other using a funky rock -- leave me wondering, 'Why can't more theater be like this?'

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4:50

It's just Tuesday

Opening the Curtain ·

2016/12/14

Last Thursday, a judge dismissed LA theater actors' lawsuit against their union. What does this mean and why you might not notice but we're all poorer for this outcome.

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4:38

A play from before . . .

Opening the Curtain ·

2016/12/07

WEB BONUS: The Super Variety Match Bonus Round! at Rogue Machine Theatre, is a play from before the election with hints of what was to come but those hints aren't ready for the weight we now place on them.

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4:37

Don't miss the experience of the forest (or the...

Opening the Curtain ·

2016/11/30

Kristy Edmunds, artistic and executive director of UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, curatorial work captures both the unique beauty of an individual work and provides a larger context within which to understand those works. It's a deep journey and next week's 36-hour tour through Shakespeare's canon with Forced Entertainment will be a perfect example.

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4:35

#specialNOTsafe

Opening the Curtain ·

2016/11/23

Mike Pence went to the theater. A twitter storm erupts and amidst smoke and mirrors, Donald Trump issues a call to action for the theater.

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4:13

A dire, urgent warning

Opening the Curtain ·

2016/11/16

After the election, John Robbin Baitz's play Vicuña speaks with a completely different voice. It is now a dire, urgent warning that cannot be ignored.

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