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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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Going crazy in the Valley

Opening the Curtain ·

2018/07/09

To wrap your mind around Jonathan Muñoz Proulx's production of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" without going crazy yourself, you've got to separate the concept of the piece from the actual drama.

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4:20

Easy endings to difficult problems?

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2018/07/02

Dominique Morisseau's play "Skeleton Crew" is a feel good play about an auto plant closing. It takes place in the break room of a Detroit auto plant. Times are tough. Plants are closing all over the place. People are losing their jobs, their dreams. And there are rumors that this plant might be next. That's got this play’s quartet of African-American characters on edge.

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4:26

Great play! Right theater?

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2018/06/25

I want to tell you to buy a ticket to this play right now but I also need to tell you to buy a ticket up front because the Ahmanson is a less than ideal theater for this play.

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4:22

A little stinky is okay - but too much and the whole...

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2018/06/11

It's June - which for Los Angeles intimate theater means it's time for the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Now, if you've never done the fringe, it's a bit like doing a tasting menu with a drunk chef. Everything happens quickly, some things are brilliant, some experiments are catastrophes, and almost everything goes better with a wine pairing.

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4:18

An unsatisfying journey

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2018/06/04

Mfoniso Udofia's play at Boston Court is not a satisfying play. In the opening scene of “Her Portmanteau,” Iniabasa certainly does not look satisfied. She's at arrivals at JFK - she's just flown here from Nigeria with a big tattered suitcase, the “portmanteau” of the title.

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4:27

Perverse magic of LA’s intimate theaters

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2018/05/28

You know that moment at the bookstore when you're browsing the serious, literary classics and the salacious cover of something pulpy catches your eye? It's that same impulse that has you order a plate of cheese fries. You know it's not going to be good for you, but god is it satisfying. "Forever Bound" by Steven Apostolina is the theatrical equivalent of that moment.

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4:35

Better than Cats

Opening the Curtain ·

2018/05/21

Two facts you need to know before you go see "Soft Power" David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori's new musical at the Ahmanson. One, weeks after the 2016 election, playwright David Henry Hwang was walking home in Brooklyn when he was brutally and mysteriously stabbed in the neck - this really happened. Two, that election? Hillary Clinton didn't win. Both these facts are critical dramaturgical departure points for "Soft Power."

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4:26

Straying from a mission to fulfill a promise

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2018/05/14

About 10 minutes into Antaeus Theatre Company's production of "Native Son", a black man accidentally kills a drunk white heiress. With most structurally sound plays, that would be enough. We have our moral crisis. We have a protagonist and a powerful question - "what will society do when a black man in 1939 accidentally kills a white woman?"

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4:41

Weaving an audience’s soul

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2018/04/30

It's a sold out opening night of "the theater is a blank page" and even though there are only 80 of us in the audience - we're in the very last rows of the balcony at Royce Hall. Even stranger, it looks like we've come to the end of a tech rehearsal. All the rest of the seats are covered with white muslin. The stage, befitting the title, is mostly empty.

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4:38

Struggling to find the right language

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2018/04/23

"ICE" is the story of an undocumented immigrant who comes in search of the American dream in the 1980's. We see him work a full day at a construction site only to be paid less than half of what was promised. When confronted the boss says basically "look you've got no papers, I can do what I want." We see this pattern repeat while he struggles to live his dream - converting an old ice cream truck into a gourmet taco truck.

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4:14

A messy, big play

Opening the Curtain ·

2018/04/16

"An Undivided Heart," a co-production of Circle X and the Echo Theatre Company is a big play. With 10 characters and almost as many subplots, playwright Yusuf Toropov is juggling a lot of ideas.

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4:44

Xeroxing Kantor’s mirror

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2018/04/10

Watching the Wooster Group's latest piece at REDCAT "A PINK CHAIR (In Place of a Fake Antique)," had me thinking about a quote from Shakespeare and a dumb joke.

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4:30

Everybody's got a hustle.

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2018/04/02

If you go see Sarah Jones' one woman show "Sell/Buy/Date" at the Geffen Playhouse, I'll bet you that someone in the seats near whispers during the show "wow, she's good." It's that kind of performance: one designed to elicit appreciation for its technique and virtuosity.

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4:49

What you get to carry as a human being

Opening the Curtain ·

2018/03/26

As Kristy Edmunds articulates so eloquently in both her words and her programming, that changes what I get to carry as a human being.

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4:49

Shamelessly preaching to the choir

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2018/03/19

It took me three hours to fall in love with Taylor Mac's "A 24-Decade History of Popular Music." Before I can even begin to explain what's so extraordinary about the show, or why 3 hours makes up barely act one, I have to orient you to the it of it.

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4:34

The Venn diagram of high art and fart jokes

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2018/03/12

I want you to imagine the Venn diagram where high art intersects with fart jokes. That sweet spot, if you want to call it that, is the where Sacred Fools latest show "The Art Couple" lives.

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4:34

The moving target of whiteness

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2018/03/06

Maybe it was pure coincidence. Or maybe it was the dramaturgy of the universe ...but on my drive to Pasadena to see "A Streetcar Named Desire" a particular phrase from a KCRW interview struck me.

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4:54

Bearing witness from the choir?

Opening the Curtain ·

2018/02/27

There's a lot of this ‘witnessing’ happening in the theater right now. Our political climate has theater makers anxious to do something, say something, to protest in some way. The challenge is–when you're preaching to the choir, what do you say?

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4:38

How do we evolve without losing our way?

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2018/02/20

Theatre Movement Bazaar's "The Grail Project" is probably 15 minutes too long, the quest itself is a little bit of a cop out, and the end doesn't really land. So let's do this in reverse.

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4:17

A soldier's past, missing drama in the present

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2018/02/13

Elliott, a nineteen year-old combat vet back home between tours of duty in Iraq, is finally going to confront his dad. Ever since he came home nursing a purple heart leg injury, he's been trying to get his dad to open up. Elliott needs to know if his dad's time in Vietnam was anything like the horror he just experienced in Iraq. But something is missing....

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