DONALD HARRISON’S JAZZ GUMBO
JAZZ GUMBO Finding unity in the musical universe of saxophonist Donald Harrison. by CRISTOFER GROSS
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A COMPOSER ‘IMAGINES’ BECKETT
IMAGINING BECKETT Composer Michael Roth’s 30-year journey with Samuel Beckett’s Imagination Dead Imagine
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JUST AS YOU’D LIKE IT
JUST AS YOU’D LIKE IT The forest of Arden comes alive at Shakespeare’s Globe in London
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A CASE FOR OBSESSION
A CASE FOR OBSESSION Glen Berger’s Underneath the Lintel is a transformative experience at the Geffen Playhouse by CRISTOFER GROSS In an extraordinary move last fall, the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood allowed a former librarian to transform its Skirball Theater into a lecture hall. "The proprietor’s extortionary rates," as Hollander decried them in a thick
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MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL | 4
MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL I | II | III | IV ‘It means so much to me that this is my first show as Associate Artistic Director. One of the first things Carey asked me to do when I came here was to build bridges in the community, and I couldn’t have imagined anything like
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MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL | MISCELLANY
MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL | MISCELLANY I | II | III | IV ‘You found yourself utterly disarmed – open, unfettered, and believing you could: you can go there, you can be that, you can wear that (or not wear it), you can sing that, you can dance that. And not only can you dance
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MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL I | II | III | IV ‘It felt like magic. It really felt like all these great things coming together.’ –Cindy Katz, Kate, The Taming of the Shrew, South Coast Repertory (1996) Act II, Sc 2: All’s Well in the West ark Rucker hated being told to do Shakespeare the
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MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL | 2
MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL I | II | III | IV ‘Shakespeare contains us; he always gets there before us, and always waits for us, somewhere up ahead.’ – Harold BloomShakespeare: The Invention of the Human ACT I, SC 3: North by Northeast Rising late on a Monday in the middle of that month, Rucker
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GOING ROGUE
GOING ROGUE The feisty new-play nurturing Rogue Machine Theatre lands on its feet in time for a ninth season in a new space. January 12, 2016 | Cristofer Gross – The element of surprise is useful in plotting plays. Not so much in producing them. In 2014, two small Los Angeles theater companies were sharing
ANSEL ADAMS STUDENT PHOTO CALL
ANSEL ADAMS’ STUDENT PHOTO CALL A surprising photo credit for a college rehearsal shot sparks inquiry. Walking into UC Irvine’s main library in 2008, I stopped before a poster bearing a remarkable photograph. The rich-toned black-and-white image showed a group of ‘60s vintage actors in an ethereal outdoor rehearsal under the watchful eye of a
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