L.A. Theater in 2010

Thanks for the memories

Comments (0) By Steven Leigh Morris Thursday, Dec 30 2010

PHOTO BY PAUL RUBENSTEIN

Another clown looks back on Los Angeles theater in 2010: photo from City Garage's Paradise Park.

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Ann Randolph's Loveland at Santa Monica Playhouse; Psittacus Productions' A Tale Told by an Idiot at Son of Semele; everything I saw at REDCAT; Lynn Nottage's Ruined at the Geffen; Palomino at the Kirk Douglas; Stage Door and A Wolf Inside the Fence at Open Fist; Independent Shakespeare Company's Much Ado About Nothing in Griffith Park; all of the War Plays trilogy presented by Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble at the Powerhouse; the Calabasas International Theater Festival; the Hollywood Fringe Festival; Gertrude Stein's Brewsie and Willie, directed by Travis Preston for Poor Dog Group; Mary Lynn Spreads Her Legs at the Steve Allen Theater; Opus and The Train Driver at the Fountain; Anton's Uncles, Theatre Movement Bazaar at the 24th Street Theater; Tom Jacobson's The Twentieth Century Way at Theater @ Boston Court; Shaheed at the Peggy Feury Studio; Jon Tuttle's Holy Ghost at Theatre of NOTE; Shem Bitterman's Influence at the Skylight; Nan McNamara's lead performance in Wit at Actors' Co-op; the SpyAnts' production of Charles L. Mee's bobrauschenbergamerica at [Inside] the Ford; City Garage's production of Paradise Park; Baal at Sacred Fools; An Oak Tree at the Odyssey; Four Places and The Sunset Limited, presented by Rogue Machine at Theatre/Theater; and Zombie Joe's Underground, just for being ZJU.

Finally, this year's Talent and Tenacity Award goes to Antaeus Company for being so talented and tenacious. This is the first year they have presented a full season, which corresponds, by sheer coincidence, to the first year that the T&T prize has been bestowed. It comes with this humble recognition and whatever rewards derive from being talented and tenacious, but it does not come with money. After all, this is theater in Los Angeles.