Reviewed by Guy Picot The past is always with us in haunting Hanukkah history. Jennifer Maisel's family drama Eight Nights, in repertoire through December 15 at Antaeus Theatre Company, has a neat device: Show one night of Hanukkah each decade... Continue Reading →
Reviewed by Guy Picot Stephanie Alison Walker's The Abuelas was developed, in part, through the Antaeus Playwright Lab and is the first such piece to receive a full production there. The wide Antaeus stage is transformed into an immaculate Chicago... Continue Reading →
Reviewed by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move There are always two sides to a story. If you had to describe the essence of Antaeus Theatre Company’s presentation of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, director Stephanie Shroyer's (above) is one explanation... Continue Reading →
Press Release Best known for its productions of classical theater, Antaeus Theatre Company will try something different in 2019-20, kicking off the season at the Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center in Glendale with two new plays that will... Continue Reading →
By Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move “She believed she could, so she did.” For whatever reason, author Rachel S. Grey’s quote from her romance novel, Scoring Wilder popped immediately into my head after leaving the performance of Antaeus Theatre... Continue Reading →
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 →
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