Opening the Curtain

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Musings on what Los Angeles theater is - and can be. Want to know more? Subscribe to Anthony's weekly Theater newsletter.


Episode Date
Matt’s Text
Apr 13, 2020
What do we do in the theatre when there is no theater?
Mar 16, 2020
‘Home’ review: domestic magic and the fleeting American dream
Mar 09, 2020
Four Larks’ creepy and gorgeous ‘Frankenstein’ will punch you in the gut
Mar 03, 2020
‘Found’ Review: Finding a musical in scraps of paper
Feb 25, 2020
'Revenge Song' review: Geek theatre rules!
Feb 18, 2020
The loss of the LA Weekly will drive you nuts
Feb 11, 2020
Are we listening?
Feb 04, 2020
What does the constitution mean to you?
Jan 28, 2020
What’s happening at REDCAT?
Jan 21, 2020
Roll with it
Jan 14, 2020
Theater for a new year
Jan 07, 2020
Best of 2019 LA Theatre: the gender act.
Dec 31, 2019
“Best of 2019 LA Theatre: the race act.”
Dec 24, 2019
A big play in a tiny space
Dec 17, 2019
A male swan’s spell
Dec 17, 2019
Punk? Or Poser?
Dec 03, 2019
A holiday cab
Nov 26, 2019
Theatre tip: just use white people
Nov 12, 2019
Comfort food comedy with a dark side
Nov 05, 2019
An essential journey
Oct 28, 2019
Internal thoughts becoming external cues
Oct 21, 2019
Seeing Beckett through a clown's eyes
Oct 14, 2019
When a play is more of a story
Oct 07, 2019
When is a “Handjob” more than a handjob?
Sep 30, 2019
Holding an imperfect mirror up to LA (vida loca)
Sep 23, 2019
Time to get schooled
Sep 16, 2019
Breathing female life into a stubborn male classic
Sep 09, 2019
The trouble with expectation
Aug 26, 2019
The brilliant complexity of a feminist classic
Aug 19, 2019
Saying no to the myth
Aug 12, 2019
The paid intimacy of immersive theater
Aug 05, 2019
Manifest masculinity
Jul 25, 2019
Brecht without the politics
Jul 15, 2019
A dead man’s legacy
Jul 08, 2019
Shocking a culture forward
Jul 01, 2019
Sherlock Holmes and the case of too many plot points
Jun 24, 2019
Mama drama with power chords
Jun 17, 2019
The alchemy of emptiness
Jun 03, 2019
Why do you choose what you choose?
May 27, 2019
The theatre of place: Jordan Downs
May 20, 2019
Saved by the cast
May 06, 2019
Enjoy the dancing dildos
Apr 29, 2019
The tenure of white supremacy
Apr 22, 2019
Doll hubris, anyone?
Apr 15, 2019
A play boss-battling itself
Apr 01, 2019
A theatrical sudoku puzzle
Mar 25, 2019
Female power? Hell yes.
Mar 18, 2019
Time for Block Party to evolve
Mar 11, 2019
Bring your kids to the theater!
Mar 05, 2019
Sometimes the past is more real than the present
Feb 26, 2019
A method to the political madness
Feb 19, 2019
Questioning a fairy tale
Feb 12, 2019
Our inescapable past.
Feb 05, 2019
Fighting the patriarchy
Jan 29, 2019
Hidden classical treasures
Jan 22, 2019
Sleeping with your son
Jan 15, 2019
Theatre for a New Year
Jan 08, 2019
Best of 2018, part 2
Jan 01, 2019
Best of 2018, part 1
Dec 27, 2018
The challenge of time and space
Dec 18, 2018
A High Sugar "Nutcracker"
Dec 11, 2018
Look for the helpers
Dec 04, 2018
A mean Lear
Nov 27, 2018
Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
Nov 13, 2018
Midterm Elections and the theatre
Nov 06, 2018
An absence of responsibility
Oct 29, 2018
A Lie to make you care
Oct 22, 2018
Breaking free from Shakespeare's Ghetto
Oct 15, 2018
A blue Jello spit take of truth
Oct 08, 2018
An argument for Dramaturgy
Oct 01, 2018
The glory of subversion
Sep 24, 2018
Catching glimpses of a great play
Sep 17, 2018
The present soul of a classic
Sep 10, 2018
Too little water; too much drama!
Aug 27, 2018
‘Cabaret’ as cover band
Aug 13, 2018
"Who gets to be a mom?"
Aug 06, 2018
Getting lost in a playwright’s mind
Jul 30, 2018
Falling for young fruit
Jul 23, 2018
Moms will do anything
Jul 16, 2018
Going crazy in the Valley
Jul 09, 2018
Easy endings to difficult problems?
Jul 02, 2018
Great play! Right theater?
Jun 25, 2018
A little stinky is okay - but too much and the whole thing's a mess
Jun 11, 2018
An unsatisfying journey
Jun 04, 2018
Perverse magic of LA’s intimate theaters
May 28, 2018
Better than Cats
May 21, 2018
Straying from a mission to fulfill a promise
May 14, 2018
Weaving an audience’s soul
Apr 30, 2018
Struggling to find the right language
Apr 23, 2018
A messy, big play
Apr 16, 2018
Xeroxing Kantor’s mirror
Apr 10, 2018
Everybody's got a hustle.
Apr 02, 2018
What you get to carry as a human being
Mar 26, 2018
Shamelessly preaching to the choir
Mar 19, 2018
The Venn diagram of high art and fart jokes
Mar 12, 2018
The moving target of whiteness
Mar 06, 2018
Bearing witness from the choir?
Feb 27, 2018
How do we evolve without losing our way?
Feb 20, 2018
A soldier's past, missing drama in the present
Feb 13, 2018
Hipster Pirates
Feb 06, 2018
Is great acting enough?
Jan 30, 2018
A not-so-silent retreat
Jan 23, 2018
The premature death of a dream
Jan 12, 2018
Transitioning to new stories
Jan 10, 2018
Theater for a New Year: a busy January
Jan 03, 2018
Best of 2017
Dec 27, 2017
Circus for the spinning multi-tasker
Dec 20, 2017
If it's not tax-deductible, will theater donors still give?
Dec 13, 2017
Meaningless entertainment, on the other hand, is actually really hard
Nov 29, 2017
A lowbrow holiday in the theater
Nov 22, 2017
Wrestling with the 'ghosts of ideas'
Nov 15, 2017
A bearded man with a ukulele and a bird mask
Nov 08, 2017
A fraught political journey
Oct 24, 2017
An extended poetic metaphor
Oct 24, 2017
Technology or theater?
Oct 17, 2017
A prison story
Oct 10, 2017
Appropriated disaster
Oct 03, 2017
Arguing with God
Sep 26, 2017
The Chicago Greeks
Sep 12, 2017
Fall theater preview
Sep 05, 2017
A crisis in governance
Aug 29, 2017
Don't look behind this door
Aug 22, 2017
When the policy is more important than the dramaturgy
Aug 15, 2017
Making sense of an inscrutable world
Aug 08, 2017
Why the all-star game isn't much of a game
Aug 01, 2017
The beasts among us
Jul 25, 2017
Missing Dad
Jul 18, 2017
Sweet when it should be savory
Jul 11, 2017
The wrong kind of spectacle
Jul 04, 2017
A Long way to go
Jun 27, 2017
A romance with slippery time
Jun 20, 2017
A civic tragedy in 4 tweets
Jun 13, 2017
Getting lost in a playwright's mind
Jun 06, 2017
A lost classic
May 30, 2017
A House with a shaky foundation
May 23, 2017
Unfair expectations?
May 09, 2017
Why we need a good 'Block Party'
May 02, 2017
We are being watched as we do the watching
Apr 25, 2017
A theatrical bologna sandwich
Apr 18, 2017
Following your ears back to the beginning
Apr 11, 2017
Worse than a wall
Apr 04, 2017
Is it the art? Or the frame?
Mar 28, 2017
The politics of naked power
Mar 21, 2017
A young play
Mar 14, 2017
The Irresistible pull of memory
Mar 08, 2017
When style gets in the way
Mar 01, 2017
Why here? Why now?
Feb 22, 2017
A complicated history
Feb 15, 2017
An acrobatic whale tale
Feb 08, 2017
The politics of collaboration
Feb 01, 2017
What makes technique, technique?
Jan 18, 2017
A legacy of work: Gordon Davidson
Jan 11, 2017
Theater for the new year
Jan 04, 2017
It’s all about the audience
Dec 21, 2016
It's just Tuesday
Dec 14, 2016
A play from before . . .
Dec 07, 2016
Don't miss the experience of the forest (or the beauty of a single tree)
Nov 30, 2016
#specialNOTsafe
Nov 23, 2016
A dire, urgent warning
Nov 16, 2016
Getting lost in a Grimm Forest
Nov 09, 2016
Polling a Play's Heart
Nov 01, 2016
An ugly story told beautifully
Oct 25, 2016
"Who's the bad guy?
Oct 18, 2016
A culturally appropriate family
Oct 11, 2016
As close as possible to the elemental core
Sep 27, 2016
A classical dick joke
Sep 13, 2016
FOUR LARKS forges a path through the INDUSTRY'S WILDERNESS
Sep 06, 2016
Fall Theater Picks
Aug 30, 2016
The Equity Saga Continues
Aug 23, 2016
No Opposition
Aug 16, 2016
An Essential Black, and Blue, Comedy
Aug 09, 2016
Taming the Ramones
Aug 02, 2016
Lost Soles
Jul 26, 2016
A Soulful Trip to the Beach
Jul 19, 2016
An Uncertain Future
Jul 12, 2016
The Sole of Satire
Jul 05, 2016
That’s a Good Trick
Jun 28, 2016
A Play to Argue Over
Jun 21, 2016
The Revelation in Repetition
Jun 14, 2016
Not Quite Prepared for This Disaster
Jun 07, 2016
Shock, Awe, and...Jane Fonda?
May 31, 2016
Unrelenting Drama?
May 24, 2016
The Bodies Tell as Much of a Story as the Words
May 17, 2016
Taking Responsibility
May 04, 2016
Shakespeare's Black Man
Apr 26, 2016
Mark It
Apr 19, 2016
Our Problem Presents Itself
Apr 12, 2016
A Nourishing Question
Apr 05, 2016
A Canary in a Bigger Coal Mine
Mar 29, 2016
What We’ve Lost
Mar 22, 2016
Don't Even Ask Her about Dressing!
Mar 15, 2016
A Challenging Chorus
Mar 09, 2016
Why Politics Matter
Mar 02, 2016
A Verdict without an Indictment
Feb 24, 2016
A Backup on the Kościuszko
Feb 17, 2016
Whose Play Is It, Anyway?
Feb 09, 2016
Opening Weekend
Feb 03, 2016
The Fullness of Nothing
Jan 27, 2016
Dystopian Delight
Jan 20, 2016
The Ritual of Space
Jan 13, 2016
Theater for a New Year
Jan 06, 2016
Best of 2015
Dec 30, 2015
All Hell Breaks Loose
Dec 23, 2015
The Recipe Paradox
Dec 16, 2015
A Commitment to Actors
Dec 09, 2015
Orpheus with an iPhone
Dec 02, 2015
The Key to Diversity in the American Theater?
Nov 25, 2015
Theater in the Age of Twitter
Nov 18, 2015
Neighborly Comfort Food
Nov 11, 2015
Hopscotch-ing Tidy Art through Our Messy City
Nov 04, 2015
Working Very Hard for Very Little
Oct 27, 2015
Equity Lawsuit: It's Deja Vu All Over Again
Oct 20, 2015
What Is Appropriate?
Oct 06, 2015
You Smiled at the Same Time as Me
Sep 29, 2015
October: An El Niño of Theater
Sep 22, 2015
A Classic in East LA
Sep 15, 2015
A Playwright Building Bridges: An Interview with Luis Alfaro
Sep 08, 2015
Grandma Franca's Curse
Aug 25, 2015
Fall Theater: Relatives from Out of Town
Aug 18, 2015
Our Historical Selves
Aug 11, 2015
A Taper Play
Aug 04, 2015
Can We Go Home?
Jul 28, 2015
Going Home
Jul 21, 2015
Why Do We Laugh?
Jul 14, 2015
The Veil of Youthful Comedy
Jul 07, 2015
It's in the Air
Jun 30, 2015
An Audience of One
Jun 23, 2015
Don't Pause...Go
Jun 16, 2015
Old-School School
Jun 09, 2015
What Difference Would It Make?
Jun 02, 2015
You Don't Exist
May 26, 2015
A Vaudevillian Prism
May 19, 2015
Brutally Beautiful
May 12, 2015
Art vs. Commerce
Apr 28, 2015
The Unexpected Circumstances of Virtuosity
Apr 21, 2015
The Next Chapter?
Apr 14, 2015
A Lot of Words
Apr 07, 2015
The Monkey on Our Backs
Mar 31, 2015
The Tough Questions
Mar 24, 2015
The Greater Good?
Mar 17, 2015
Act One: Who Isn't for a Minimum Wage?
Mar 10, 2015
Prologue to Disaster
Mar 04, 2015
Give In to the Temptation
Feb 25, 2015
Visual Feasts
Feb 18, 2015
Engaging Too Much
Feb 11, 2015
The Farce of Tyranny
Feb 04, 2015
Tis a Gift to Be Simple
Jan 28, 2015
The Safety of the Past
Jan 21, 2015
The Politics of Click-bait
Jan 14, 2015
Theater for a New Year
Jan 07, 2015
The Best of 2014
Dec 31, 2014
A Séance with Greatness
Dec 24, 2014
A Shrinking Theater
Dec 17, 2014
One Week out of 52
Dec 10, 2014
Holiday Theater for the Whole Family
Dec 03, 2014
A Taper Tragedy
Nov 26, 2014
The Asian Carp of LA Theater
Nov 12, 2014
LA's the Thing
Nov 05, 2014
Re-Imagine This! #Pro99
Oct 28, 2014
Discord Is Right!
Oct 21, 2014
Art Takes A Life
Oct 14, 2014
The Magic of Harmony
Oct 07, 2014
The Rewards of Time
Sep 30, 2014
Is It a Recipe or a Formula?
Sep 16, 2014
Upsetting the Hierarchy
Sep 09, 2014
Theatre’s Economic Reality
Sep 02, 2014
Six Shows Not To Miss: Fall Theater Preview
Aug 26, 2014
The Style is All
Aug 19, 2014
Let Neil LaBute Push Your Buttons
Aug 12, 2014
The Emperor Is Wearing a Speedo
Aug 05, 2014
The Mythic Poetry of the Distant Present
Jul 29, 2014
Tim Wright: Does Producing Less Lead To More?
Jul 22, 2014
Great F**king Show!
Jul 15, 2014
#Tonycanyouhearme
Jul 08, 2014
A Cinderella Story - Sort Of
Jun 24, 2014
Density? Yes. Quality? Uh…
Jun 17, 2014
Grappling with Narrative
Jun 10, 2014
The Faustian Bargain of Audience
Jun 03, 2014
Hitting the Center
May 27, 2014
It Feels like a Big Play
May 20, 2014
O for a Muse of Venice
May 13, 2014
Formally Excavating the Past
May 06, 2014
Ever Present Technique
Apr 29, 2014
Dreaming of a Sun King
Apr 22, 2014
A Dance of Specificity and Spontaneity
Apr 15, 2014
A Dream of Imagination
Apr 08, 2014
An Australian Prologue
Apr 01, 2014
Don't Circle the Wagons!
Mar 25, 2014
The Cult of Ensemble
Mar 11, 2014
Half Baked and a World of White
Mar 05, 2014
Relentless Commitment
Feb 26, 2014
Vanya et alia
Feb 19, 2014
What You Leave Out
Feb 05, 2014
For Christ's Sake
Jan 29, 2014
I Hope It's the Last Time
Jan 22, 2014
It Comes Down to the Comma
Jan 15, 2014
What Does It Mean to Be Local?
Jan 08, 2014
Theater for a New Year
Jan 01, 2014
The Year's Best
Dec 25, 2013
Theater in Beverly Hills?
Dec 18, 2013
Peter Pan Doesn't Necessarily Have to Fly
Dec 11, 2013
Holiday Theater - Everywhere!
Dec 04, 2013
The Magic of Less
Nov 27, 2013
A Decade of Work
Nov 20, 2013
Back to Class
Nov 13, 2013
Oops
Nov 06, 2013
The Culture of Resonance
Oct 29, 2013
Our Invisible City
Oct 22, 2013
Gone
Oct 15, 2013
Unity
Oct 08, 2013
Connecting the Dots
Oct 01, 2013
A Theater on a Roll
Sep 17, 2013
It's All about Scale
Sep 10, 2013
Fall Theater Preview
Sep 03, 2013
A Feminist Rorschach Test
Aug 27, 2013
Zombie Soap Opera
Aug 13, 2013
Large Casts: The Redemption of Small Theater
Aug 06, 2013
Take Me Back!
Jul 30, 2013
The Weight of History
Jul 23, 2013
Cold Hard Cash
Jul 16, 2013
Who's Story Is It?
Jul 02, 2013
Forging Meaning
Jun 25, 2013
Space Meet Time
Jun 18, 2013
Where's the Revolution?
Jun 11, 2013
So Much Has Changed?
May 28, 2013
An American Classic
May 21, 2013
Breaking Boundaries or Thank God for Repressive Gender Roles
May 14, 2013
Sleeping with the Help
May 07, 2013
Trailer Park Ulysses
Apr 30, 2013
Why?
Apr 23, 2013
Trust the Actor
Apr 16, 2013
Theater Journalism: Size Matters
Apr 09, 2013
The Value of Consequences
Mar 26, 2013
Balancing Shaw
Mar 19, 2013
Defined by Disability?
Mar 12, 2013
Horsing Around
Mar 06, 2013
And Some Things Change...
Feb 27, 2013
Showcasing the Dark Side
Feb 20, 2013
The Black Art of Dramaturgy
Feb 13, 2013
Remembering John
Jan 30, 2013
A Company's Growing Pains
Jan 23, 2013
Damn Ephemerality!
Jan 16, 2013
Financial Times
Jan 09, 2013
Theater for a New Year
Jan 02, 2013
Best of 2012
Dec 26, 2012
Six Voices
Dec 19, 2012
Listen
Dec 12, 2012
We, The Audience
Dec 05, 2012
A Commercial Formula
Nov 28, 2012
Rapture Anyone?
Nov 21, 2012
A Study in Manipulation
Nov 14, 2012
Tentacle Erotica?
Oct 30, 2012
Oh Krapp!
Oct 16, 2012
A World Untethered
Oct 09, 2012
The Magic of a Little Fishing Line
Oct 02, 2012
To Pillage
Sep 25, 2012
Five Golden Plates
Sep 18, 2012
Quantity or Quality?
Sep 11, 2012
Seven Hours
Sep 04, 2012
Amateur Virtuosity
Aug 28, 2012
A painter's pas de deux
Aug 14, 2012
Rodney King: The First Reality TV Star
Aug 07, 2012
99% Farce, 1% Satire
Jul 31, 2012
A Crown? Or a Tiara?
Jul 24, 2012
An Evil Metaphor
Jul 17, 2012
Two Languages at War
Jul 03, 2012
Does LA Need a Fringe?
Jun 26, 2012
Behind an Actor's Eyes
Jun 19, 2012
I Miss August
Jun 12, 2012
Irising Down on the Details
Jun 05, 2012
The Evidence Room Is Back
May 29, 2012
The Alchemy of Experience
May 22, 2012
A Greek Betrayal
May 15, 2012
A Process with Integrity
May 08, 2012
A Civic Voice for the Theater
Apr 24, 2012
A Master Class in Stagecraft and Movement
Apr 17, 2012
The Internet of the Soul
Apr 10, 2012
En Attendant Urgence
Mar 27, 2012
Worst Jesus Movie in the History of Cinema
Mar 20, 2012
The Theatrical Languages of LA?
Mar 13, 2012
An Exciting Failure
Feb 29, 2012
The Stories We Spin
Feb 22, 2012
Prison Poetry
Feb 15, 2012
The Path Forward
Feb 08, 2012
Breakfast in America
Jan 25, 2012
In Conversation with Helen Hunt and David Cromer
Jan 18, 2012
In the Company of the Male Gaze
Jan 11, 2012
Theater for a New Year
Jan 04, 2012
Best of 2011
Dec 28, 2011
The Soul of Fela!
Dec 21, 2011
The Two Sides of Consistency
Dec 14, 2011
The Night Watcher
Dec 07, 2011
A Hate Crime and a Kiss
Nov 23, 2011
LA Theater: A Study in White?
Nov 16, 2011
The Responsibility of Space
Nov 09, 2011
A Play Called Hope
Nov 01, 2011
Adult Culpability and Childhood Innocence
Oct 25, 2011
The Poetry of Fluid Time
Oct 18, 2011
Cowboys and Dinosaurs
Oct 11, 2011
The Responsibility of Image
Oct 04, 2011
Where Are the Hollywood Clowns?
Sep 27, 2011
Morally Bankrupt and Vacuous...but Funny
Sep 20, 2011
The SITI Company's Questions
Sep 13, 2011
Ideas in Need of Passion
Aug 30, 2011
The Magic of Intimate Theater
Aug 23, 2011
A Dark Night of the Soul
Aug 09, 2011
An All Too Pretty Labyrinth
Aug 02, 2011
Healthcare and Humanity
Jul 26, 2011
An All Too Clever Hamlet
Jul 19, 2011
Peeling Peer's Onion
Jul 12, 2011
A real theatre community?
Jun 28, 2011
Was It All Make Believe?
Jun 21, 2011
A step into the past...and maybe the future
Jun 14, 2011
The Magic of Polaroid
Jun 07, 2011
A Desire for Honesty
May 31, 2011
Spotlight on LA
May 24, 2011
Fleck's Madness
May 17, 2011
Sorry, Charlie
May 10, 2011
Stage Stars
Apr 26, 2011
The Merchant of Venice Goes to Wall Street
Apr 19, 2011
The Joys of Simulated Nudity
Apr 12, 2011
History Plays
Apr 05, 2011
Head in the Oven
Mar 29, 2011
Natural History Theater
Mar 22, 2011
Laughter, Catharsis and a Side of Gore
Mar 15, 2011
Quixote's Misfortune Is Not His Imagination
Mar 02, 2011
Camino Real
Feb 23, 2011
33 Variations
Feb 16, 2011
The Pleasure of Consequences
Feb 09, 2011
Oh Baby, I'm a Cyclops
Jan 26, 2011
Drama of the Everyday
Jan 19, 2011
Greed Isn't What It Used to Be
Jan 12, 2011
One Final Monologue
Dec 22, 2010
A Holiday Wedding
Dec 15, 2010
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Recently Closeted Gay Man
Dec 08, 2010
Holiday Theater, Anyone?
Dec 01, 2010
Arts Funding, Anyone?
Nov 24, 2010
The Origin of Theater?
Nov 17, 2010
Where's the Next Bet?
Nov 10, 2010
A Window to a Playwright
Oct 26, 2010
Elizabethan Sitcom
Oct 19, 2010
A Winning Season
Oct 12, 2010
Artifice and Awareness
Oct 05, 2010
A World of Desire
Sep 28, 2010
The Cart before the Horse
Sep 21, 2010
How Big Is Your Chorus?
Sep 14, 2010
Dinosaurs and Storytelling
Sep 07, 2010
The History Next Door
Aug 31, 2010
The Theater Needs You
Aug 10, 2010
Bloody Irresponsible
Aug 03, 2010
Brewsie and Willie
Jul 27, 2010
Procreation
Jul 20, 2010
A Warehouse and a Dream
Jul 13, 2010
A Human Lear
Jun 29, 2010
Theater on the Fringe
Jun 22, 2010
Theater of the Cliche
Jun 15, 2010
Anton's Uncles
Jun 08, 2010
Towards a Slow Theater
Jun 01, 2010
UCLA Live Theater: Thanks for the Memories
May 25, 2010
Second
May 18, 2010
The 20th Century Way
May 11, 2010