LA WEEKLY’S NEW REVIEW GO DEMENTIA
Photo by Ed Krieger Anyone who survived the deadly HIV plague time of the ’80s, when the best and brightest of the arts community was virtually wiped out by the disease, can’t help but be moved by the pathos of playwright Evelina Fernández’s AIDS melodrama. And while the urgency of the play might have diminished somewhat in the intervening years of antiretroviral successes, director José Luis Valenzuela’s re-staging... Read More
Los Angeles Times Theater review: ‘Sick’ at Los Angeles Theatre Center
April 26, 2010 | 1:30 pm When it comes to walking the fine line between humor and misery, Erik Patterson is an experienced high-wire artist. Patterson’s new play, “Sick,” presented by Playwrights’ Arena and the Latino Theater Company at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, is an incisive treatment of hypochondria and addiction that can be blisteringly funny. Laughs aside, however, Patterson has a point to make about society’s generalized... Read More
HOT ACTS: SICK
If you prefer your family drama with a side of hypochondria and alcoholism, then take a trip downtown to the Los Angeles Theatre Center to catch Sick, which kicks off the Spring 2010 season of the East of Broadway series. HIH had the pleasure to attend the World Premiere, meet the cast, and enjoy the hidden wonders of Spring Street. With the cast of Sick. From award-winning playwright (and HIH friend) Erik Patterson, Sick observes one... Read More
Backstage Reviews “Sick”
LA Review: ‘Sick’ Playwrights’ Arena and the Latino Theatre Company at Los Angeles Theatre Center Reviewed by Travis Michael Holder | April 20, 2010 PHOTO CREDIT: Adam Blumenthal Playwright Erik Patterson admits to personal hypochondria in the program notes for this resplendently twisted effort—yet another in his string of hilariously wicked and glaringly contemporary plays gloriously sending up the communal sickness... Read More
VIDEO: Erik Patterson gets interviewed about ‘SICK’
In this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes, Back Stage’s Jenelle Riley talks to award-winning playwright Erik Patterson about his new play “Sick.” Patterson recently won the WGA Award for “Another Cinderella Story,” starring Selena Gomez and Jane Lynch of “Glee.” Here, he discusses his new play, becoming a songwriter by accident, and hypochondria. via Backstage Read More
LA Times’ Culture Monster Theater review: ‘The Emperor’s Last Performance’ at Los Angeles Theatre Centre
An unjustly forgotten chapter in American theatrical and racial history is the raison d’être of “The Emperor’s Last Performance,” which ends its limited Los Angeles Theatre Center run on Sunday. This respectable Robey Theatre Company staging of Melvin Ishmael Johnson’s drama about the first star of Eugene O’Neill’s “The Emperor Jones” merges the techniques of stage fantasia and social document. Once... Read More
A Word With the Emperor
Robey Theatre Production Kicks Off LATC Spring Season by Ryan Vaillancourt Published: Friday, March 26, 2010 4:42 PM PDT DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – The central conflict in the Robey Theatre Company’s The Emperor’s Last Performance revolves around a racial slur, a word whose use is as controversial now as it was during the 1920s, when the world premiere is set. Against the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance, the play centers on African-American... Read More
REVIEW: Robey Theatre Company, Scarecrow Press illuminate theatre history
Paul Robeson is well remembered today for his performance as the self-appointed monarch of a Caribbean island in Eugene O’Neill’s “The Emperor Jones.” What’s been largely forgotten is that it was the first important dramatic role for a black actor on Broadway—and that the actor who created the part was not Robeson but a man named Charles Gilpin. “The Emperor’s Last Performance” by Melvin Ishmael Johnson, now in a limited world premiere... Read More
VIDEO: A Preview of ‘The Emperor’s Last Performance’
The Emperor’s Last Performance [more info] Thursday 03/25 8pm (preview) Friday 03/26 8pm Saturday 03/27 3pm and 8pm Sunday 03/28 3pm and 7pm Friday 04/02 8pm Saturday 04/03 3pm and 8pm Sunday 04/04 3pm and 7pm LATC Theatre 4 General Admission: $30 Students: $20 Read More
VIDEO: A Preview of ‘The Einstein Plan’
The Einstein Plan [more info] Saturday 03/27 8pm Sunday 03/28 3pm LATC Theatre 3 General Admission: $30 Students, Seniors and the Unemployed: $15 One 15 minute intermission. Read More
