KCRW's Opening the Curtain
Summary: Musings on what theatre is - and can be - in Los Angeles.
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- Artist: Anthony Byrnes
- Copyright: KCRW 2014
Podcasts:
RedCat, the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, is beginning to celebrate its 10-year anniversary and it offers a moment for reflection, a chance to look back on their decade of work.
Furious Theater Company transforms the intimate, upstairs theater at the Pasadena Playhouse into a classroom for their production of "Gidion's Knot."
The Stella Adler Lab Theater takes on one of Shakespeare's 'problem' plays, Titus Andronicus.
The plot of "Moskva," at City Garage, ranges from Satan's ball and the promise of becoming a naked queen of the night to a dialogue between Jesus and Pontius Pilate.
Director Yuval Sharon sets the new opera "Invisible Cities" within Los Angeles' Union Station, which is both the work's greatest success and most profound challenge.
Time is a double edged sword in the theater.
It's a poetic irony that a play about invasive rules might benefit from some old fashioned rules of its own.
What's the community doing to develop and sustain its audience? What difference does a theater festival make? Or even more importantly, if it succeeded what's next?
This darkly comic, dysfunctional family drama revolves around 3 generations of women struggling to break free of "degenerate bad decision blood" that runs in the family.
How do you engage the Getty Villa's architecture and scale without falling prey to it? A look at CalArts Center for New Performance's production of ?Prometheus Bound.?
Anthony Byrnes previews theatre offerings to look forward to from the Getty Villa, Boston Court Theatre, A Noise Within and Radar L.A.
A feminist drama -- though not in the stereotypical sense -- but that all too rare species in the American Theater: a play driven by a cast of women written by a woman.
What would happen if Eve got a second bite of the apple?
"The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" is built around a simple question:  if God is all forgiving, why is Judas condemned to Hell?
'A Parallelogram,' Bruce Norris' new play at the Taper, is, at least conceptually, a play about time travel.
