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“For the Love Of (or The Roller Derby Play)” Has Cal Rep Setting the Bar Too Low

The California Repertory Company is the performance arm of the CSULB Theatre Arts graduate program. The vast majority of Cal…

2 years ago

Tedious “Love and Information” Has Nothing Substantive to Say About Either

In a 1986 New York Times think piece, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt provides a concise explanation of what literary critics call the…

3 years ago

Cal Rep Young’uns Conjure the “Rocky Horror” Spirit

Maybe you didn’t know it, but before there was a picture show, Rocky Horror was a 1973 stage musical. Two…

3 years ago

Cal Rep Solidly Delivers Flawed Chicano Reimagining of Electra Myth

In Greek mythology, Electra avenges the murder of her beloved father and king by abetting her brother’s killing of their…

3 years ago

Youthful Cal Rep Movement Piece Doesn’t Deliver as Advertised

By Greggory Moore, Curtain Call columnist Walk into a show with a title like MOVE: The History of a Hand,…

6 years ago

Hell Is the Modern World in “Machinal”

Sophie Treadwell’s expressionistic telling of one woman’s struggle to find her way in a world she experiences as mechanistically cold…

8 years ago

GOOD BOYS AND TRUE @ Cal Rep

When reviewing a play, I'm generally completely uninterested in knowing anything about the playwright's life. It doesn't really matter whether…

8 years ago