Steven Mikulan

GREAT MEN OF SCIENCE Nos. 21 & 22By GLEN BERGER At CIRCLE X THEATER CO. The Lost Studio Theater 130 S. La Brea Ave. Through April 26 You may or may not have seen, in any number of textbooks, an antique engraving that depicts Galileo showing off a telescope to......

There's a moment in Gertrude Stein's play about a French town during the German Occupation when one character advises another to "just be natural and do your part." It's a gently ironic suggestion, given how the actors in Interact Theater's production of Yes Is for a Very Young Man neither......

BURNING BLUE By DMW GREER At the COURT THEATER 722 N. La Cienega Blvd. Through April 15 COMBAT! By JOHN FISHER At the VICTORIA THEATER 2961 16th St.,San Francisco Through April 18 "I would have followed you to the ends of the Earth!" confesses one earnest character in Burning Blue,......

Although the American century arrived with the myth of its melting pot, today we live in a culture riven by identity politics and their dissonant vocabulary. It's no riddle why; while certain categories of people may enjoy more civil rights than they did 100 years ago, they also remain fairly......

John Dos Passos opened his U.S.A. trilogy of novels with a freewheeling inventory of what made up the United States ("a publiclibrary full of old newspapers and dogeared historybooks with protests scrawled on the margins, a lot of men buried in their uniforms in Arlington Cemetery") and what it meant......