“For the Love Of (or, The Roller Derby Play),” now playing at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, could be perceived (or dismissed) as a play about women’s roller derby. However, the “For the Love Of” part really sums it up. Focusing heavily on a new skater who goes by Joy Ride, the well-acted […]
Versions of the fairy tale, Cinderella, exist in most cultures around the world. In the U.S., there have been cartoons, musicals, ballets and films. Yet, Matthew Bourne’s magical reimagining of “Cinderella” as a tale set in Blitz-era London, which opened at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles this week, plumbs new depths in its entertaining […]
Male middle-age angst has been explored on stage in a variety of forms. As displayed in “Linda Vista,” a play by Tracy Letts (“August: Osage County”), that opened this week at the Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, the white male misanthrope around which the characters swarm (and spar) is alternating hilarious […]