Group 2012 May

Theater archive for May, 2012

Lewis

I mentioned Lewis Brown in a recent blog entry about Cygnet's Dirty Blonde. Years ago, he told me that contrary ...

Dirty Blonde at Cygnet

Mae West became such a fixture in pop culture the military named the first vest-sized life preserver after her. The ...

Behind the Grand Drape

During the Restoration era, two of the reigning actresses, both named Elizabeth, couldn't hate each other enough. They played a ...

Nobody Loves You at the Old Globe

TV's most damning expression reigns when the jobless rate's rarely been higher. Viewers wait an hour to hear what's-his-hair shout ...

"The Funniest Man I Ever Saw"

In The Scottsboro Boys, Haywood Patterson is condemned to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit. In the ...

No Child... Is Worth the Drive

Theatre Review By Kevin Six (from left) Marc Amial Caro, John Rogers, Robert Malave, Lynae DePriest, Dempsey Davis, Bianca Ostojich, ...

Master Harold...and the Boys at Lyceum Theatre

For its inaugural production, Living Light Theatre performs Athol Fugard's autobiographical drama. The intermissionless piece talks about an unexpected twist ...

Arts Left Behind?

Nilaja Sun's No Child opens this Saturday at Mesa College's Apolliad Theatre. It's based on her experiences directing a play ...

The Cast Looks at Brownie Points

On the surface, Janece Shaffer's comedy-drama sounds pleasant enough. Girl Scouts go camping in the Northern Georgia pines. Five mothers ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles at North Coast Rep

I saw a preview of Phil Johnson and Cynthia Stokes' work-in-progress. Johnson, in fact, was performing before his first live ...