Engine 28 reporter Walter Ryce, on loan from the Monterey County Weekly, asks regular folks in downtown Los Angeles about their relationship to (or lack thereof) Los Angeles theater. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdPSQrnEmqo&w=560&h=349] Walter RyceIf you like graphic novels, film, popular uprisings, urban hikes, horseplay, stage plays, John Adams or Philip Glass, city skylines, hip-hop, underground art [...]
‘Asleep at the Wheel’: Waking Up
June 19, 2011 By
About a dozen people learned more about sleep apnea, narcolepsy and cataplexy than they might have reasonably expected on a Friday night at a Hollywood Boulevard bar/improv comedy club. They also gleaned insights into the joys and sorrows of American health care, the Los Angeles metro bus system and the precariousness of low-wage jobs. All [...]
‘Titus Redux’ Review and Impressions
June 17, 2011 By
My podcast review and impressions of ‘Titus Redux’ – an update of William Shakespeare’s ‘Titus Andronicus’ by the Not Man Apart and New American Theatre companies. [soundcloud width="100%" height="81" params="" url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/17364125"] Walter RyceIf you like graphic novels, film, popular uprisings, urban hikes, horseplay, stage plays, John Adams or Philip Glass, city skylines, hip-hop, underground [...]
The Defiant Ones: ‘The Word Begins’
June 15, 2011 By
Words fly, and the audience laughs – then ducks A monochromatic white screen acts as a canvas, and stools, plugged-in microphones and not much more are the tools for Steve Connell’s and Sekou Andrews’ two-man assault on racism, politics, fear, religious strife and more. Instead of using paint to illustrate those canvases, they employ words: a [...]
