by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move Antaeus Theatre Company's The Cripple of Inishmaan could be celebrated as 'the most wonderful play of their season'. The silliest of expressions, but considering its ultimately delightful nature, it fits. Noted occasionally as... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move Antaeus' The Little Foxes made an exciting move in casting Deborah Puette in the role of Regina Hubbard Giddens. Puette plays to her absolute strength in Lillian Hellman's classic 20th century drama, set... Continue Reading →
Six new plays by award-winning, mid-career writers will have readings on Sept. 29 and Sept. 30 as part of the new Lab Results: The Antaeus Playwrights Lab Festival series at Antaeus Theatre Company located at the Kiki & David Gindler... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move At its best, Three Days in the Country, is a blithe, comical update, by Patrick Marber, of Ivan Turgenev’s classic A Month in the Country, and a potent reminder of how people seem... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move I just couldn't get past the rape. It was hard to justify. A statement and a half, yes. And we'll get to that... In 1940, Mississippi born, Jim Crow era, African-American Southerner, Richard... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move Brit Week: A Shakespeare Jubilee has wrapped at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, but not without plenty of highly memorable comedy and drama from U.K. and local Los Angeles theatrical... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move For their second opening night Antaeus Theatre Company (Ducks cast) presented a wildly buoyant version of Harold Pinter's full-length tragicomedy, The Hot House. The lunatics are running the nut house and its anyone's guess what... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move There was inevitably one major conversation at Antaeus Theatre's post-performance opening night celebration for Les Liaisons Dangereuses and it began with the hashtag, #MeToo. Ugh if you dare, but Antaeus' production of this pre-(French)-Revolution... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move Adam J. Smith's amped, hi-fi comedy of Touchstone, Abigail Marks' Celia and Tony Amendola's, Jacques turn around a lackluster commencement of one of Shakespeare's greatest comedies, for a thoroughly resonant and delightful finale... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move Only one expression is needed to describe the opening night performance of the Antaeus Theatre Company's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: "On Fire!" Set in the 1950s, the language of the play... Continue Reading →
Reviewed by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move I was so emotionally affected. Shut down cold. And at first, I couldn’t say why. The experience of Hedda Gabler, maybe for the first time ever, was THAT startling. Antaeus Theatre Company’s... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move One could harp on all of the social ideology about sexual oppression exposed in Caryl Churchill's Obie Award-winning play, Cloud 9, currently being mounted by the Antaeus Theatre Company. But in Cloud 9,... Continue Reading →
