Odyssey Theatre Ensemble has announced Circa ’69! an 18-month retrospective beginning in June 2019 that will celebrate its founding, 50 years ago, by artistic director Ron Sossi, who has remained steadily at the helm since the company’s first production in... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move A former Columbia neuroscientist turned high school biology teacher, Dr. Guy Royston (Jeff Marlow) and his gifted Yemeni-American student, a high school senior, Yasmeen al-Hamadi, (Medalion Rahimi), form an unlikely scientific partnership in... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move Anywhere but hir… Playwright Taylor Mac's acclaimed dysfunctional family drama Hir making its Los Angeles premiere at the Odyssey Theatre is a bleak fandango of messy but deeply serious realities. A darkly humorous... Continue Reading →
Press Release Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions and American Oasis present a moving, funny and thought-provoking drama about science, culture, religion and more. Vicangelo Bulluck directs the West Coast premiere of Paradise by Laura Maria Censabella, running Jan.... Continue Reading →
Offering a kaleidoscope of contemporary dance, the Odyssey Theatre's 3rd Annual Dance at the Odyssey Festival (Tickets: $25) will celebrate the art of dance from January 5 - February 10, 2019, with a free workshop in December 2018. Friday, Dec. 21,... Continue Reading →
Reviewed by Guy Pico What moral compromises would you be prepared to make to create a better life for your family? This is the central question for a struggling British couple in Philip Ridley's timely and challenging play, Radiant Vermin,... Continue Reading →
By Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move Artistic Director Tim True is looking to the present, not just for his theater company Door Number 3, but for Los Angeles audiences. Some of his former Portland group (Third Rail Repertory Theatre)... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move Extraordinarily intimate, Oedipus Machina, directed by Ron Sossi, and inspired by Ellen McLaughlin’s adaptation of the Sophocles text, opened this past weekend at The Odyssey Theatre in West Los Angeles. It is a... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move Money. Sex. Bad behavior….just another day at the stock exchange. There are approximately 63 trillion dollars on the line in fees, investments and customer assets and no one but the intern seems to... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move A genuinely humanizing, beautiful and hopeful amalgamation of the conversations of four women, one of whom is the therapist of the other three, Silent Witnesses at the Odyssey Theatre articulates the narrative memories of child... Continue Reading →
