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Review: Gripping ‘All My Sons’ at Antaeus Theatre Company
From left: Bo Foxworth (Joe) and Matthew Grondin (Chris) in Antaeus Theatre Company's "All My Sons" (Photo by Craig Schwartz) Arthur Miller wrote his Tony Award-winning play “All My Sons” in the immediate aftermath of World War II. No doubt it carried that resonance when it premiered on Broadway in January 1947. Through excellent staging and acting, Antaeus Theatre Company’s current production of this gripping play carries some of that same resonance — its weighty themes ring
Anita W. Harris
Mar 193 min read


Review: ‘The Shark is Broken’ at Laguna Playhouse
From left: Gildart Jackson, Will Block and Adam Poole in "The Shark is Broken" at Laguna Playhouse (Photo by Jason Niedle) If you are even remotely a fan of the 1975 blockbuster movie “Jaws,” you will thoroughly enjoy the play “The Shark is Broken” at Laguna Playhouse, written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon about the off-screen dialogue among the movie’s three main actors — Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw. Ian Shaw based the play on stories his father Robert shar
Raj Walia
Mar 123 min read


Review: Ensemble Theatre Company’s ‘The Shark Is Broken’ at New Vic Theatre
From left: Gildart Jackson (Robert Shaw), Adam Poole (Roy Scheider) and Will Block (Richard Dreyfuss, under table) in Ensemble Theatre Company’s “The Shark Is Broken” at New Vic Theatre (Photo by Jason Niedle/TETHOS) Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon’s “The Shark Is Broken” — having its West Coast premiere by Ensemble Theatre Company under the direction of Pesha Rudnick in Santa Barbara’s New Vic Theatre — offers an honest, sharply observed behind-the-scenes look at the making of St
Dondre Tuck
Feb 103 min read


Suspenseful ‘Deathtrap’ swerves into International City Theatre
If you’re searching for something civilized to get you into the Halloween spirit, look no further than International City Theatre’s...
Anita W. Harris
Oct 25, 20233 min read


Chance Theatre’s ‘The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity’ wrestles with race
Review of Chance Theatre's The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Anita W. Harris for LA Theatrix
Anita W. Harris
Oct 26, 20224 min read
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