by Jordan R. Young | Aug 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
What are the chances of seeing a beautifully restored version of “Little Orphant Annie” (1918), starring a youthful Colleen Moore in her earliest extant movie? Pretty good, now that film historian and preservationist Eric Grayson has decided to make this long-held...
by Jordan R. Young | Aug 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
How many “Macbeths” and “Twelfth Nights” will audiences for Shakespeare support? An infinite number, it seems. Will people come to see something of the Bard’s so seldom staged most have never even heard of it, for example “The Winter’s Tale”? Yes, as it turns out—even...
by Jordan R. Young | Jul 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
There’s a little community called Niles in the Bay Area, south of Oakland, that has a unique claim to fame. In the early days of cinema, Charles Chaplin made a series of comedies there and “Broncho Billy” Anderson, the movies’ first cowboy star, made westerns. More...
by Jordan R. Young | Jun 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
“Greater Tuna” is served up not in a casserole dish, but by actors who know what they’re doing when it comes to satire. It would be easy to go over the top—after all, this zany, comedic look at the denizens of a tiny town somewhere in Texas lends itself to broad...
by Jordan R. Young | May 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
Eleanor Reissa, Amy Aquino and Betsy Brandt in The Sisters Rosensweig. Photo by Debora Robinson/SCR. Since Wendy Wasserstein’s untimely passing in 2006 her plays have not been widely produced, at least in this neck of the woods, making South Coast Repertory’s revival...
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