Virginia Woolf

Rapture, Blister, Burn Is an Exuberant Take on the State of Feminism in 2013

Play captures the cultural tension between ambition and family

Tender Napalm

Nina Raine's Play Tribes Depicts a Family That Talks a Lot But Doesn't Listen

Happy Birthday, M.F.K. Fisher: Celebrate by Reading the Alphabet

Today would have been M.F.K. Fisher's 104th birthday, an occasion she may have celebrated, as she liked to do over the course of several days -- today, tomorrow, the next day and all the way up to Bastille Day on July 14th. She spent a good portion of her life in France, but grew up in Whittier and ... More >>

Mark Crick's The Household Tips of Great Writers: Cooking à la Chaucer, Etc.

Foodforfel/FlickrMark Crick imagines Geoffrey Chaucer's version of an onion tart​When it comes to celebrity cookbooks, we don't have a whole lot of great ones to choose from. But maybe that's more a function of who we consider celebrities these days: if our great writers cooked up food instea ... More >>

Seascape

The Merchant of Venice and God of Carnage

Applause

Movie Review: Ahead of Time

Live Review: Nite Jewel and Teen Inc. Get Funky At The Troubadour

Daiana FeuerTeen Inc. takes up space ​Study the line between letting loose and letting go. Letting loose is something accomplished with the body. Letting go might be a cerebral thing done at a Nite Jewel and Teen Inc. show. These two bands participate in a nebulous music cluster residing in ... More >>

Orlando, Reissued: Who's on First?

Tilda Swinton's gender-lending turn

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Actress/producer Tilda Swinton on her postmodern romantic epic, I Am Love

Good-bye, Dolly!

Blemishes are forbidden in Boys in the Band and Survival Exercise

Theater Reviews: Divorce! The Musical, Grand Motel, The Jazz Age

Also, Call Me Mister Fry, Blues for Central Avenue and more

Stage Raw: Film

FILM is this week's Pick of the Week. Photo by Darrett Sanders Failing Better The Absurdists' convention Local playwright Patrick McGowan's new play, Film, has no right to be as good as it is. The central character is the late theater director Alan Schneider (Bill Robens) -- known for stagi ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Candida, Poor, Poor Lear, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Also, Surviving Sex, The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh, and more

Stage Raw: Candida

CANDIDA Candida at the Colony Theatre is this week's Pick. Photo by Michael Lamont. At your fingertips: The 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards NOMINEES.Tickets for nominee's guests and for the general public can now be purchased via  http://tinyurl.com/theaterawardsReviewed this we ... More >>

Stage Raw: Monsters and Prodigies

Reviewed this week: Pippin at the Mark Taper Forum; Jack Chandlers' new comedy-mystery, Murder on the Bounding Main, at Sierra Madre Playhouse; a dance-rock fusion, Vibrating Sun, at Unknown Theatre; Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble's staging fof Macbeth; Echo One-Act Festival at Stage 52; Furious Th ... More >>

Getting Off-Broadway: A New York Guide

Roundup of shows in the shadow of 42nd Street

Edna O'Brien: Ireland's Other Literary Heavyweight

Author's life has inspired comparisons to her novels' passionate protegées

Sexy Laundry

Blah-Blah Sisterhood

Chick-flick genre to Evening: Why you gotta make us look bad?

Patti Smith Is Starting to Annoy Me

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Film Reviews: Meet the Robinsons, Blades of Glory

Also, The Hills Have Eyes II, Air Guitar Nation and After the Wedding

Don’t Look Down

And the opinions of others

Theater

Is Edward Albee Softening with Success?

As Who's Afraid of Virigina Woolf? opens in L.A., the playwright is at the top of his game.

Weekend Theater Reviews

Including All About Walken, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and more

a Nervous Smile

Theater Reviews

Weekend Theater Reviews

Reviews of A Nervous Smile, P.O.P: The Principles Of Perfection and Salsa Saved the Girls

New Theater Reviews

An Immodest Proposal

Been Here, Done This

Mike Nichols can’t polish Closer to a shine

Messy, Tactile, Beautiful

Julia Margaret Cameron, photographer

The CEO and the Lynch Mob

Suzan-Lori Parks is rewriting the American

Killing the Angel in the House

With a major-label contract and a spot on the Lollapalooza tour, the Distillers are set to become big rock stars. How will Brody Armstrong tolerate the fame?

Born Identity

T Cooper on the transgendered, postmodern families and her debut novel, Some of the Parts

Into the Groove

Dancing for time, forever

Laughing in the Dark

The education of Edward Albee

Finding Room in the New Century

Director Anne Bogart on taking up space

Ambitious … Pretentious … but Pretty Good Cobbler

Restaurant Halie tries hard

Piercing the Gloom

And You Don’t Ask a Neurosurgeon To Show You How To Cut Up Brains . . .

Uta Hagen would rather act than talk about her craft

Written on the Mac

Love in the age of Jeanette Winterson

Visitation Rites

Keeping down with the Joneses

Mistress of the Everyday

Chitra Divakaruni, ambassador to Texas

A Room of Her Own

The Hole behind the looking glass

Consume Part II:

[Mostly] Not Food

Artificial Intelligentsia

Five eggheads anticipate the computer