by Jordan R. Young | Sep 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
Charles Busch’s “Red Scare on Sunset” (at the Costa Mesa Playhouse through Oct. 2) tackles what seems like a odd subject for a comedy—the “gray, horrifying period” in Hollywood history known as the blacklist era. The playwright no doubt figured if Mel Brooks could use...
by Jordan R. Young | Sep 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
The cast of Ma Rainey; photo by Craig Schwartz. “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” by August Wilson (at the Mark Taper Forum in L.A. through Oct. 16) is ostensibly about the titular personality known as “the mother of the blues” and the small group of jazz musicians who...
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