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
