by Jordan R. Young | Aug 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
David Edward Reyes and Talia Goodman in Karen Fix Curry’s “Celtic Knot” at OC-centric. Photo by Kirk Huff Schenck. Theresa Rebeck’s “The Understudy” (at Modjeska Playhouse in Lake Forest through Sept. 3) is an example of what can happen when a playwright makes a...
by Jordan R. Young | Aug 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
The cover features funny lady Alice Howell. Carol Burnett may be a pioneer of sorts, but women were taking pratfalls decades before she was born. As Steve Massa sees it, the Boy’s Club “myth” of silent film comedy started with James Agee’s seminal Life magazine cover...
by Jordan R. Young | Aug 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Ryan Imhoff and Grace Morrison in New Swan’s “Taming of the Shrew.” August. Time to swelter in the city. And brush up your Shakespeare. Those who love the Bard’s comedies—as well as those who tend to avert their eyes and ears for fear they won’t understand it—are in...
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