The Hollywood Fringe Festival was fun, but its scattershot programming didn’t bring much of anything new to LA theater. Let’s compare it to the Ring cycle — and to the kind of festival that might actually yield long-term benefits for our theatrical ecology. READ MORE
To Tell the Truth
by Don Shirley | April 23, 2010
Exciting stagings of See What I Wanna See and The Arsonists examine “the truth” from opposite perspectives, as religious con men become the theatrical theme of the year. READ MORE
Torture Plays, New Venues, Desperate Straits, Immigrants Abroad
by Don Shirley | February 19, 2010
On Caring for the Beast, Why Torture Is Wrong, Lobby Hero, Exiles, Blood and Thunder, Celadine, Kings of the Kilburn High Road, Sidhe. READ MORE.
