Review: South Coast Repertory Presents YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE END OF THE WORLD!
by Michael Quintos - Apr 17, 2025
Poignant, hopeful, sardonic, jubilant, and hilariously wicked, YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE END OF THE WORLD! is a brilliant new World Premiere play that revels in its eccentricity yet, thankfully, doesn't quite shield you from genuine, gut-wrenching emotions that tug at your heart strings. Buoyed by a terrific ensemble cast and magical theatricality, Keiko Green’s bold and emotionally resonant new theatrical work is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining. The play continues at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa through May 3, 2025.
Interview: Anthony Roth Costanzo of THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO at Little Island
by Peter Danish - Aug 28, 2024
Anthony Roth Costanzo is the first opera singer in a generation to make consistent headlines - not just for his marvelous singing! ARC was recently named General Manager and Artistic Director of Opera Philadelphia -- where only yesterday his new 'Pay what you can,' ticket program broke all boxoffice records! The effort is designed to attract a generation of new operagoers.
Review: AN AMERICAN SOLDIER Is a Horror Story of Brutality and Abuse
by Richard Sasanow - May 15, 2024
“Why did I enlist? Why did I go to war?” are but two of the questions that Private Danny Chen asks himself in the powerful docu-opera, AN AMERICAN SOLDIER, by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang. It was directed thoughtfully and surely by Chay Yew in its New York debut Sunday afternoon at the new Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC-NYC) at the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan.
Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Round House Theatre
by David Friscic - Feb 1, 2024
The painful slow journey for understanding as to what normalcy or perceived sanity is --when a family member is suffering from bipolar illness--- is explored with heartbreaking poignancy, almost brutal honesty and with deadpan caustic humor in the musical Next to Normal. Now playing at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre, this almost totally sung-through musical caught me up in its oddly satisfying emotional pulse. I fell into its compelling pull as the trauma of a family experiencing the highs and lows of bipolar illness unfolded.