Subject: William Shakespeare

• Theater Reviews: The Mystery of Irma Vep, Macbeth, Falling Upward

  Also, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light, Makin' Hay and more

  March 19, 2009

• Stage Raw: Cooperation and Dissent

  August 25, 2008

• Stage Raw: It Helps to Be Bi

  August 27, 2008

• Stage Raw: Who Needs Plays?

  August 29, 2008

• Jan Kott Remembered

  February 14, 2002

• Summer Calendar

  May 30, 2002

• Guys and Dolls

  A revelatory all-male Twelfth Night from London

  November 6, 2003

• Excess of Evil

  March 18, 2004

• Hamburger Hamlets

  March 9, 2006

• A Midsummer Night's Dance

  May 15, 2008

• Theater Reviews: Bury the Dead, Coriolanus, Inherit the Wind

  Also, Abigail's Party, The Bones of Lesser Men, and more

  August 28, 2008

• Stage Raw: Stick Fly

  AT YOUR FINGERTIPS: THE WEEKEND'S NEW THEATER REVIEWS EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSand this week's THEATER FEATURE: an Off-Broadway roundupReviewed this week: the world premiere of Richard Greenberg's Our Mother's Brief Affair at South Coast Rep; the west coast premiere of Dana Yeaton's play The Big Random, presented by Sight Unseen at the Attic Theatre & Film Center; Groundlings, In the Study, With a Candlestick, sketch comedy and improv at the Groundli

  April 13, 2009

• Macbeth

  January 29, 2009

• Troubadour Theater Company Spins Shakespeare Like a Copper Penny

  Political clowning, from Bono to Barack

  September 4, 2008

• deLEARious

  July 24, 2008

• Hamlet

  January 10, 2008

• Wooster Group's Hamlet; Alex Lyras' The Common Air

  All the world's a remix

  February 7, 2008

• Fresh Rock: American Hip-Hop

  January 24, 2008

• Aurelito & Shakespeare, Aural Tradition

  February 5, 2004

• Casting by Craigslist

  Ethos Theatre Company’s unorthodox classicist

  April 5, 2007

• The Chocolate Bar

  February 22, 2007

• Theater Reviews

  Including The Marvelous Wondrettes and The Compleat Works of William Shakespare (Abridged)

  January 4, 2007

• Theater Reviews: Zorro in Hell, The Idiot Box, Bad Seed and More

  July 26, 2007

• Best Theater Featuring a Chorus of Frogs

  October 5, 2006

• Booty Call

  October 5, 2006

• Weekend Theater Reviews

  August 31, 2006

• Partying Like It's 1425

  August 3, 2006

• Weekend Theater Reviews

  July 27, 2006

• Theater Reviews

  July 13, 2006

• Who's That Bard?

  November 17, 2005

• Happy Ever-Aftering

  Flipping off the classics

  October 13, 2005

• Summer Enchanted Evenings

  July 22, 2004

• Will’s World

  January 29, 2004

• Shakespeare in the Dark

  October 9, 2003

• Light

  July 26, 2001

• Shakespeare for Dummies

  June 15, 2000

• Hamlet, Inc.

  May 18, 2000

• The End Is Near!

  December 30, 1999

• Sound and Fury

  August 19, 1999

• In appreciation of the Bard, recorded

  August 19, 1999

• Engaging in Consexual Text

  July 8, 1999

• Cymbeline

  June 11, 2009

• THEATER REVIEWS: CARVED IN STONE, THE HOSTAGE, KILL ME DEADLY

  July 16, 2009

• Carved in Stone

  July 16, 2009

• Stage Raw: As You Like It

  THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO AS YOU LIKE ITAs You Like It Photo courtesy of Aquila TheatreSummer is in full heat across the Southland, which brings out amphitheater productions of Shakespeare with the frequency of garden barbecues: Cymbeline and Julius Caesar at Theatricum Botanicum, A Midsummer Night's Dream at both Theatricum Botanicum and Veterans Center for the Perf

  July 22, 2009

• THEATER REVIEWS: BIG BRO/LIL BRO, HELLZ KITCHEN ABLAZE AND THE NUCLEAR FAMILY

  July 30, 2009

• Stage Raw: Cannibal! The Musical

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS plus the LATEST NEW REVIEWSAlso, this week's STAGE FEATURE on two plays set beyond the end of the word: Henry Murray's Treefall and Eugene Ionesco's The ChairsNEW REVIEW GO CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL ​Photo by Jami JohnsonHumankind can be said to be divided into two, mutually exclusive populations: those who believe South Park co-creator Trey Parker is the second coming of Molière, and those who dismiss his loopy brand of scatological satire as the sophomoric product

  August 10, 2009

• Stage Raw: Clowntown City Limits

  THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK CLOWNTOWN CITY LIMITSPhoto by Ed RachlesImagine a personable, grimy, makeup-smeared, cigar-chomping guy in a tank top, not unlike Tommy Lee Jones, playing cards outdoors on the porch of some trailer with a grunting little guy in a cowboy hat but also with smeared makeup who makes up the rules as he goes, spies conspicuously on his opponent's cards and goes into paroxysms of glee with his fra

  July 13, 2009

• IS THIS A BINGO THAT I SEE BEFORE ME?

  November 19, 2009

• Stage Raw: Pasolini on Stage

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshNEW REVIEW T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. ​Photo by Stefan OkolowiczThis riveting production from Poland's TR Warszawa theater troupe, presented as part of the UCLA Live Eighth International Theater Festival, is adapted from Pier Paulo Pasolini's 1968 movie Teorema. A typical suburban upper-class family's pleasant, if complacent daily lives are interrupted by an unexpected telegram warning that someone is "arriv

  November 20, 2009