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		<title>Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler subjects of new play</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron BURBANK, California &#8212; In 1943 two highly unlikely collaborators quarreled their way through a movie script that earned the anxious concern of the Breen Office (administrator of the industry’s moral censorship guidelines), and was nominated for seven Academy Awards without winning any. The collaborators were Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Two thumbs up&#8217; for Roger Ebert</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron ENCINO, California &#8211;  To anyone who only knew film critic Roger Ebert from his television persona, arguing with his long-time colleague Gene Siskel, you might characterize Ebert as “the grumpy one.”  But when he died this week after a 10-year battle with cancer, the heartfelt tributes from his friends and fellow critics emphatically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avenue Q: not a street for kids</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California &#8212; It’s really a puzzlement trying to figure out who the producers of Avenue Q had in mind for an audience for their puppet show, since the production is too cloyingly cutesy for grownups and too explicitly sexual for kids. (In fact, the show comes with a warning: “Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play illuminates autism and Asperger&#8217;s Syndrome</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8211;He is a 23-year-old college graduate preparing to go to law school. He is verbose, awkward, and intensely focused. The sort of young man who will offer a 20-minute response to “Hello.” He has Asperger’s Syndrome. She is a recluse living in a fantasy world of her own creation, tied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘7 Stories deals with insane and the inane</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Cynthia Citron BEVERLY HILLS, California &#8212; A tall man in a tightly-buttoned suit and a bowler hat, carrying a large black umbrella, stands on a ledge on the seventh floor of an apartment building. Behind him are seven arched windows from which a collection of weirdos pop from time to time like the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play probes problems of having a famous dad</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; For anyone who’s ever wished that he had grown up as the child of a major celebrity, Elliot Shoenman’s new play A Heap of Livin’ provides a powerful cautionary tale.   Ramblin’ Harry Roe, a hillbilly folk guitarist impeccably played by the formidable Lawrence Pressman, has been a spectacular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Machu Picchu, Texas&#8217; when dreams turn into delusions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD &#8212; Timothy McNeil’s new play, Machu Picchu, Texas, now having its world premiere at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood, is about an angry, dysfunctional family again, folks, but this time the intensity is mitigated by a cast that is uniformly excellent and a set designed by Michael Fitzgerald and Aidan Fiorito that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hirsch prefers interviews on current projects, not &#8216;Taxi&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California &#8212; If there’s one thing that makes actor Judd Hirsch grumpy, it’s when a critic throws in information that Hirsch considers extraneous or irrelevant to the current role that he’s playing. For example, he has played literally hundreds of roles in his more than 40-year career, but he is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sigmund Freud vs. C.S. Lewis in philosophical repartee</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California &#8212; So this Jewish atheist gets into a conversation with an atheist convert to the Church of England… Sounds like there should be a shaggy dog punch-line at the end, but instead you get Mark St. Germain’s riveting play, Freud’s Last Session , an imagined discussion between Sigmund [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Rainmaker&#8217; pours on the emotions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA &#8211;You may think that all this rain we’re having is caused by a drop in barometric pressure. But are you aware that Tanna Frederick, Robert Standley and their director Jack Heller are in heavy-duty rehearsals for N. Richard Nash’s play The Rainmaker, which opens this week at the Edgemar Center [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foote notes not likely to be more than that</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron Soft-spoken playwright Horton Foote is to Texas what William Faulkner was to Mississippi: a faithful chronicler of the values and mores of a cultural subset of the American people. A major feature of both their bodies of work is their protagonists’ reaction to specific circumstances, disappointments, and defeat. “How a man reacts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comedy tells of Jewish girl playing Jesus</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron   LOS ANGELES &#8212; They should have called it Corny Island Christmas.  Corny in a good way, of course.   Donald Margulies’ new play, Coney Island Christmas celebrates what Jewish kids have fantasized about for a couple of generations now: an ecumenical Christmas that they can participate in without shocking the neighbors.   After all, Jesus was a Jew, wasn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 looks at &#8216;da mob&#8217; at the Ruskin</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron   SANTA MONICA, California &#8212; Five deez-dem-and dowz guys are currently chewing up the stage of the Ruskin Group Theatre here.  You might think of them as the Sopranos on steroids.   In the first of playwright/director Sam Henry Kass’ three one acts, jointly titled Siddown!!! (Conversations with the mob) the terrifically nuanced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L.A. Play Reviews:  &#8216;Yankees&#8217; and &#8216;Pancreas&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron    NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California&#8211;What could be more lacerating than a sister’s scorn?  Especially if she sits on the board of a prestigious art museum and he is a struggling conceptual artist.   That’s the premise and dilemma of Joshua Ravetch’s new four-part play One November Yankee, now having its world premiere at the NoHo Arts Center in North Hollywood. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Pi&#8217; proves far greater than a number sequence</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Cynthia Citron  LOS ANGELES &#8212; I couldn’t get through the book, so now I feel the need to express my apologies to its author, Yann Martel.  The film they have made of his novel, Life of Pi, is one of the most exquisite films I have ever seen.  It has received rave reviews [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seniors strut their stuff in Hollywood musical</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron     HOLLYWOOD, California&#8211;They rolled out the pink carpet to celebrate the opening weekend of Jackie “The Pink Lady” Goldberg’s fourth annual musical production, Rockin’ with the Ages &#8211; The Beat Goes On!  And they have a lot to celebrate:  a sassy production written, directed, and choreographed by Cate Caplin, a cast of talented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Mutually Assured Destruction&#8217; is a suburban tale</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8211;Remember when “mutually assured destruction” meant maintaining détente with Russia&#8212;or else? As the threat of nuclear war hung like a mushroom cloud over all our heads, the thought that nobody would survive kept everybody from pushing the button. Oh, for the good old days. But wait, there seems to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Haunting of Greystone Mansion</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron BEVERLY HILLS, California&#8211;Two men in love with the same woman.  And, according to some reports, with each other as well.  All living together in a 55-room mansion in the hills.  What could possibly go wrong? Everything, as Kathrine Bates’ gripping drama The Manor so skillfully reveals. Set in Beverly Hills’ majestic Greystone Mansion, where many of the events actually unfolded, the play chronicles the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Komitas&#8217; tells of Armenian genocide and lost music</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; If you’re Armenian you’ll love Komitas. If you’re not, the play may seem a little obscure. It’s the story of a 19th century musicologist who made it his life’s work to collect the music of his country&#8212;the folk songs, the liturgy, the classics&#8212;so that they would remain pure and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Jessica Olson, who makes double costumes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron  NORTH HOLLYWOOD &#8211;So there’s one cast (the Kinsmen). Then there’s another (the Thanes). And then there are the Hurlyburlys. It’s the Antaeus Company’s way of making sure that if an actor is called away in the middle of a run to star in a film by Ron Howard or a TV show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play is as dysfunctional as the family it depicts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California&#8211; If a play’s success can be measured by the amount of meat it offers you to chew on, and the length of time it takes for you to digest it, then That Good Night can be considered a success. For the first act, at least. A totally dysfunctional family, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Savannah Disputation&#8217; a religious comedy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron BURBANK, California &#8212;  Whose God is it, anyway? In Evan Smith’s sparkling new play The Savannah Disputation, the question is anything but moot. Especially not to Melissa (Rebecca Mozo), a permanently perky proselytizer from one of those religions that consider it their mission to show everyone the error of their ways. Melissa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Our House&#8217; needs some renovation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron  HOLLYWOOD &#8212; When you go to see a play by Theresa Rebeck you can generally be assured that it will be a thoroughly enjoyable evening of theater. But not this time. Our House, currently having its west coast premiere at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood, is an over-the-top dramedy about the dumbing-down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Dugan provides a brilliant portrait of Robert E. Lee</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron BEVERLY HILLS, California &#8212;  “History is written in black and white, but life is lived in shades of gray.” In this case, the “shades of gray” refers not only to the ambiguous judgments of history, but also to the colors worn by the defeated soldiers of the secessionist Confederacy during the Civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Sideways The Play&#8217; overburdened with the f-word.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California &#8212; There were a lot of f-words in the Oscar-winning movie Sideways.  And I’m not talking alliteration here.  But the words were somehow mitigated by the dazzling scenery of the California wine country and the luminous performances of Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church. In Sideways The Play, however, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;No Way But Through&#8217; an endless exercise in psycho-babble</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron BURBANK, California &#8212;   No matter how intently you pay attention, No Way Around But Through doesn’t make a lot of sense. Billed as a “dark romantic comedy,” this new play by actor/playwright Scott Caan is intermittently comic but persistently cranky rather than dark.  As for romance, Caan, who plays Dano on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do artistic directors actually do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; “Here at the Geffen, I consider myself a curator of a museum of theatrical fare,” said Randall Arney, artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse. Arney was responding to the question posed by Terence McFarland, CEO of the LA STAGE Alliance: “What is artistic direction and how can you tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Stoneface&#8217; a hilarious tribute to Buster Keaton</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD &#8212;  If you’re pining for perfect pratfalls, you’ve got to see Stoneface because its star, French Stewart, has them down prat. Stewart, best known for his six seasons as the alien Communicator in TV’s 3rd Rock from the Sun, displays a breathtaking physicality as he portrays comedy icon Buster Keaton in a role custom-tailored for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A family&#8217;s feud makes for poignant theatre</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; Sonny Burl is a country music star who can fill a stadium with his voice and his guitar.  You may never have heard of him, but he is the focal point of Mark Roberts’ play Where the Great Ones Run, now having its West Coast premiere at Theatre Theater in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Beautified&#8217; needs more action to sustain interest</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron    LOS ANGELES &#8212; A rather persnickety lady from Newton, Massachusetts wanders into a beauty salon in Framingham, forms an unlikely friendship with the hairdresser, and keeps coming back regularly for 40 years. That would seem to be loyalty above and beyond, since the distance between Newton and Framingham is the same as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Find his plays incomprehensible?  Well, then, you&#8217;re not worthy!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8211; I discovered something very interesting when I interviewed poet-playwright Murray Mednick last week: If you want to get a provocative interview, start by making the subject angry. I begin by remarking, quite innocently, that I don’t understand his plays. Innocent, but terminally tactless. “You want me to explain my plays [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Love Struck&#8217; and &#8216;Synthesthesia&#8217; offer some new theatre approaches</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Cynthia Citron     BEVERLY HILLS, California &#8212; In my view, it’s cause for rejoicing when a play is beautifully written and is performed by actors who are at least as brilliant as the writing.  Mostly because it doesn’t happen all that often.   Two new shows demonstrate what I mean.   Love Struck, which opened at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the difference between a reviewer and a critic?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; “A review is something I read before I see a play. A critique is something I read after,” actress Deidrie Henry said. She was responding to a question about the distinction between reviews and criticism posed by LA Stage Alliance CEO Terence McFarland, who was serving as moderator of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raves for &#8216;Cyrano&#8217; in its sign-language adaptation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES&#8211; I can’t rave enough to adequately convey my excitement and admiration for the new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac that opened this week at the Fountain Theatre. Written by Stephen Sachs and directed by Simon Levy, this brilliant Cyrano is performed by the extraordinary actors of the Deaf West Theatre. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your talent may get you through the darkest of times</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron SAN DIEGO &#8212; Hold on to your music. It will be your best friend.” This has been the Golabek family mantra for four generations of concert pianists. As pianist and playwright Mona Golabek settles on a sofa in a private meeting room outside the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater, the intimate performance space [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Early and often&#8217; a silly play about when one should vote</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD, California &#8211;They weren’t projecting, they were SHOUTING! And even if they were better actors, the play would still be a lot of frivolous twaddle. It’s Early and Often, a play by Barbara Wallace and Thomas R. Wolfe, and directed by Ron West, that explores political morality in 1960s Chicago.  And if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holocaust musical is poorly conceived</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron SAN DIEGO &#8211; Not since Mel Brooks’ outrageous Springtime for Hitler has there been a Holocaust musical as ill-conceived and badly performed as No Time to Weep, now onstage at L.A.’s Matrix Theater. No Time to Weep is the autobiography of a sweet, eternally upbeat Czech poet, Lucy Deutsch, who survived Auschwitz, came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baryshnikov stars and even dances in &#8216;In Paris&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California &#8212; Unless you’re an aficionado of the ups and downs of the Russian Revolution of the early 20th century, it’s very hard to keep track of the players without a scorecard. Take the White Army.  Anti-Communist, anti-Bolshevik, anti-Semitic, and loyal to the Russian Empire of the Tsar, they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Cheri Steinkellner: her life is written in plays</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron VENTURA, California&#8211;Most women, when faced with a diagnosis of lymphoma, might be overcome by despair.  But Cheri Steinkellner turned the experience into a one-woman musical monologue that became part of the Inner Voices series that played Off-Broadway at Primary Stages in 2010. “The piece, called Mosaic, was a composite story—mine and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Magic Bullet Theory&#8217; goes beyond tasteless</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron  LOS ANGELES &#8212; Those of us who voted for John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1960 were fortunate enough to experience the exhilaration, the hope, and the joyful anticipation that his election brought to the nation. We watched with pride as this charismatic young man and his ethereally beautiful wife charmed the rest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Davids share a new love: &#8216;Laura&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron BEVERLY HILLS, California &#8212; Two Davids met as freshmen at St. Gregory’s, which was then a community college in Shawnee, Oklahoma. After two years, they moved on  — David McClendon to the University of Oklahoma and David Hunt Stafford to CalArts. But both of them went on to become successful actors and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Diary of a Madman&#8217; tends to get tedious</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron Cynthia Citron WEST HOLLYWOOD, California &#8212; Diary of a Madman is considered one of Nikolai Gogol’s greatest short stories.  As an 80-minute monologue, however, it’s a bit much.  But the version running now at The Actors Circle Theater in West Hollywood is as good as it gets. Russian-born actor Ilia Volok is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volok and Lazarev, friends from Russia, team in Hollywood</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron WEST HOLLYWOOD, California &#8211; “A really good actor knows something the writer doesn’t know,” Ilia Volok says.  “The actor brings his life –the life of a human spirit — to the stage, and a great actor elevates it.” Ukrainian-born actor Volok cites Kevin Kline as one of the greats.  “He delivers with passion,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of three one-acts, one definitely needs a rewrite</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD &#8212; As ratings go, two out of three isn’t bad.  And so, two good plays out of three new one-acts making their debut with the Vagabond Players makes for an entertaining interlude at the theater.  The evening’s offerings are collectively called It’s Dark Out, and the plays are, indeed, dark. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Footnote,&#8217; Israeli film that won Academy Award nomination, tells of father-son rivalry in academia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; Two men, one in a suit and the other in a sweater, sit side by side in folding chairs in a small auditorium.  They are listening to an unseen speaker introducing a new inductee to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. As the speaker finishes, the man in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you romanticize writing, check out this Chekhov play</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California &#8212; Medvedenko the schoolteacher is in love with Masha, the daughter of the manager of a country estate.  Masha is in love with Konstantin, a would-be playwright.  Konstantin is in love with Nina, a would-be actress.  Nina is in love with Trigorin, a successful novelist.  Trigorin is in love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbara Bain of &#8216;Mission Impossible&#8217; fame to star in &#8216;Why We Have A Body&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California &#8212; Barbara Bain, who’s about to open in Why We Have a Body at the Edgemar Center, probably will never top the excitement of her first premiere — her own entry into the world. She made her debut on Friday the 13th in the back seat of her uncle’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play depicting Simon Wiesenthal worth a standing ovation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron VENTURA, California&#8211; It’s well worth the trip to the Rubicon Theatre, believe me. Tom Dugan is absolutely brilliant as the Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal. And completely Standing Ovation-worthy. Dugan’s one-man show is set in a replica of Wiesenthal’s office at the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna on the day of his retirement. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spinoza&#8217;s trial and excommunication subject of new play</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8211; A few days ago, the West Coast premiere of a play by David Ives demonstrated that that imposition of certain religious convictions on the differing beliefs of another person has been going on seemingly forever. Ives’ play is called New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch De Spinoza at Talmud Torah [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One-man show reveals life of Simon Wiesenthal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron VENTURA, California &#8211;Playwright/director/actor Tom Dugan is in the process of writing his sixth one-man show, The Ghosts of Mary Lincoln. “I’m not playing Mary,” he says, “but I could.” In the meantime, Dugan is busy preparing his successful show Nazi Hunter — Simon Wiesenthal, which ran at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40 last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theatre professionals analyze role of modern Jewish theatre</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; To paraphrase a very old joke: seven Jews sat down at the table to express 14 different opinions… In fact, they were the opening panel convened by the 31st annual conference of the International Association for Jewish Theatre, beginning Sunday at UCLA Hillel’s Dortort Arts Center to discuss “Jewish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Lonesome West&#8217; deserves its adjective</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California &#8212; If there is a loaded shotgun hanging on the living room wall just below the crucifix, you sort of get a hint of the kind of household you’ve entered. In Martin McDonagh’s play The Lonesome West, currently onstage at the excellent Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The odyssey of little Lula</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; Quick! Who is Luiz Inacio da Silva? Or do you know him as “Lula”? Would it help if you were told that Time Magazine had named him one of the Most Influential People in the World in 2010? That Forbes ranked him One of the World’s Most Powerful People? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drama, tension, suspense at &#8216;The Water&#8217;s Edge&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California&#8211; As Winston Churchill might describe it, Theresa Rebeck’s play The Water’s Edge is “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” There re more mixed emotions, contradictions, outright lies, duplicity, passion, and chills in this dramatic masterpiece than in any play you’re likely to see in this decade. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helen Hunt is stage manager in new production of Wilder&#8217;s &#8216;Our Town&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California &#8211; There must be at least half a dozen people in L.A. who have never seen Thornton Wilder’s classic play Our Town. If you are one of them, you couldn’t do better than the production that opened this week at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Helmed by Helen Hunt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;A Separation,&#8217; from Iran, is heart-wrenching movie fare</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212;  A Separation is probably one of the best films of the year. But it should come with a warning label, because it is not for the faint of heart. It is so intense that it can tie your stomach in knots, and you may have a hard time breathing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;In Darkness&#8217; portrays Holocaust victims hiding in Polish sewers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES&#8211; Many people judge Stephen Spielberg’s film Schindler’s List to be the definitive Holocaust movie. Until now. Giving Spielberg a run for his money is Agnieszka Holland’s latest film, In Darkness. Poland’s official entry for Best Foreign Language Film in this year’s Oscar race, In Darkness is exactly what its title proclaims: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three faces of Rose viewable in Beverly Hills</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Cynthia Citron BEVERLY HILLS, California &#8211; For those of us who have lived much of our lives in the Kennedy Century, The Color of Rose is a poignant revisit with the fabled family that always seemed an extension of our own. Kathrine Bates’ fascinating play, told through the eyes of the matriarch, Rose, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Color of Rose&#8217; explores life of Kennedy matriarch</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Cynthia Citron BEVERLY HILLS, California &#8212; In the hands of playwright Kathrine Bates, even history’s certified villains get a sympathetic hearing. Take, for example, Lucrezia Borgia. Bates penned (with Ted Lange) and starred in the one-woman Evil Legacy: The Story of Lucrezia Borgia, performing it first for a dozen friends in her own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Forgotten&#8217; maybe should have been</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; It’s been a pretty good year for Irish plays. There was War and The Field, both set in an Irish pub, and Lucia Mad, a domestic drama about James Joyce’s family, Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock, and the Druid Company of Ireland’s rendition of The Cripple of Inishman. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playwright envisions Mother Earth awakening from her nap</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Story and photo by Cynthia Citron STUDIO CITY, California &#8211;  “In my family we would scream and yell at each other and then we would have dessert.” In Sherry Glaser’s family, there was a lot to scream about — a mother who was manic-depressive and schizophrenic and proud of it, a grandmother who was also mentally deranged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ugandan adoption leads to new play in Burbank</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron BURBANK, California &#8212; If you were an actor whose most recent claim to fame was playing a pimp in the men’s toilet in Central Park, an impromptu trip to Uganda might not seem so unreasonable. At least it didn’t seem so for Johnny O’Callaghan, one of the main performers in a thriller [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play explores if Britain had lost to the Nazis</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California &#8212; Who would have suspected the sophisticated, debonair, and wittily  dismissive Noel Coward to be a mooshy patriot?  Anyone who’s ever seen his play Peace In Our Time, that’s who. This intense drama, first performed in 1947, is being given a brand new outing by the excellent Antaeus Company.  Seldom performed because of  its large cast, it has not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dance me to the moon</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD &#8211; If you are a Frankie freak&#8212;and who  among us is not?&#8212;you will find no greater pleasure than flying away to the Pantages Theatre before November 6th.  There Sinatra reigns supreme, singing 27  of his all-time hits&#8212;songs that make you want to hug whoever’s sitting next to you. Come Fly Away is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Moving Tragedy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California &#8211;You might think that The Tragedy of the Commons deals with some sort of disaster that befalls Mr. and Mrs. Commons.  But no, the commons referred to here is that pristine public park set aside in a newly established village for the enjoyment of its inhabitants.  Early on, however, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intentionally annoying play questions Judaism&#8217;s precepts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; The God of Isaac is an irritatingly unconvincing play, despite the earnest charm of its leading man, Adam Korson. Korson plays Isaac Adams, a Jewish journalist in Chicago happily married to his blonde “shiksa goddess,” a badly wigged fashion model played by Corryn Cummins.  Isaac, like so many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was the Bard really  Edward de Vere?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; Of all the things we think we know about William Shakespeare, most of them are guesses, or assumptions, or just plain made up. In actual fact, even though the writings of many of his contemporaries have survived through time, there is not a single piece of paper ever discovered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Skin I Live In&#8217; probably won&#8217;t get under yours</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; Pedro Almodovar’s imaginative new film, The Skin I Live In, is a bizarre amalgam of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Pygmalion. Shot in the glowing sunshine of an idyllic Spanish country estate, it is a brooding, dark fantasy of love, hate, and revenge. A strikingly handsome Antonio Banderas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Poor Behavior&#8217; outcome of poor marriages, good comedy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; Watching a marriage implode can be painful.  Watching two marriages implode can be hilarious.  In playwright Theresa Rebeck’s play Poor Behavior, now having its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, two couples, long-time friends, are spending a weekend together in the country.  They are not academics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love and Death in Russia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; Aleksei Fedorchenko’s latest film, Silent Souls, is both silent and soulful. And incredibly Russian. The story revolves around the ritual burial of Tanya (Yuliya Aug), the much-loved wife of the manager of a paper factory, Miron (Yuri Tsurilo). Unwilling to involve “outsiders” in the funeral preparations for Tanya, Miron [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet them at &#8216;South Street&#8217;; Hurry on Down</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron PASADENA, California &#8212; Like In the Heights, the recent happy musical set in New York’s Washington Heights, South Street, the new musical that had its world premiere this week at the Pasadena Playhouse, also glorifies a neighborhood. The setting is Philadelphia, home of the Phillies, the cheesesteak sandwich, and Sammy’s Place. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What little girls playing &#8216;dress up&#8217; can lead to</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron PASADENA, California &#8211;“I started out in college in pre-med, but I couldn’t hack the chemistry. Then I switched to pre-law, but I found it boring. Then I went to see a production of Georges Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear, and it hit me like a ton of bricks — ‘That’s what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former hippie lovers meet a quarter century later</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron BURBANK, California &#8211;“A woman needs to marry before she gets too interesting,” Elena says ruefully. And Elena, as played by Michelle Duffy, is one of the most interesting characters you’ll see on stage this year. Elena is a hippie who never got over it. She also, apparently, never quite got over her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh mammy, Burstyn does Jolson to a turn!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD &#8212; His exuberance could suck all the air out of a venue as large as New York’s Winter Garden. His massive ego was on display as he referred to himself in the third person, as Jolie, and as “the WOW.” He bragged that he was the first to break the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too much of a good thing in &#8216;Falsettos?&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; I’ve never heard more enthusiastic responses to a song than the ones that greeted each fabulous number in the new musical Falsettos. And I was right there, clapping and screaming with all the rest of them. By the second act, some two hours into the show, however, the applause [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May-December friendship blossoms on a park bench</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES&#8211;There is just one word for Jean Baker and Jean-Loup Dabadie’s new film My Afternoons with Margueritte, and that’s DELICIOUS! In this one Gerard Depardieu is a big soft chocolate mousse and his costar, 97-year-old Gisele Casadesus, is a lean, crunchy baguette. The two unlikely companions meet on a park bench, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Falsettos,&#8217; directed by Richard Israel, inaugurates Third Street Theatre</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; When Jerry Seinfeld said “Yada yada yada” you could interpret it to mean “and so on and so forth” or “blah blah blah” or even “stuff that’s too insignificant to talk about right now.” When Lani Shipman says “YADA”, however, she is talking about something that’s very significant to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New &#8216;Rabbit Hole&#8217; production eases pain of previous one</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron Cynthia Citron PACIFIC PALISADES, California &#8212; In March 2009 a theater company in Malibu mounted a run of David Lindsay-Abaire’s play Rabbit Hole, which chronicles the effects of the death of a four-year-old on the rest of his family. While it was a fine production overall, this is what I wrote about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Vivien&#8217; script assumes too much knowledge on part of the audience</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; There’s no denying that the role of Vivien Leigh is an acting tour de force for Judith Chapman.  She looks like Leigh.  She sounds like Leigh.  And she goes dramatically nuts like Leigh. But the problem with Rick Foster’s play Vivien, now having its Los Angeles premiere [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Murderer persuades himself he is Cary Grant in new play.  But will he persuade you?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8211;A convicted murderer sits on Death Row convinced that he is Cary Grant.  He is warm, charming, and black.  Is he delusional or merely pretending in order to amuse himself? His defense attorney, who is appealing his conviction, believes his previous attorney badly mishandled his case.  Moreover, she believes he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Chasing Madoff&#8217; is film about one man&#8217;s inspired demand for justice</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron Cynthia Citron ENCINO, California&#8211; A decade before the thousands of people who had invested their money with Bernie Madoff realized that they had lost it all, a Boston-based securities analyst was blowing his whistle loud enough to wake all of Wall Street.  But Wall Street wouldn’t listen. Harry Markopolos, who had gathered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Treem: A Talent Supreme</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD &#8212; If you were to guess Sarah Treem’s age by her looks alone, you’d probably say, “Not a day over 21.” If you were to guess her age by the quantity and quality of her output and accomplishments, you’d probably say, “Forty-one.  Maybe even 51.” What does Sarah Treem say?  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;A Death in Columbia&#8217; is much alive on stage</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; “I’ve told you everything and now you know too much, so I’m going to have to kill you.” This, in a nutshell, is the plot of Shem Bitterman’s new play, A Death in Colombia.  To tell more would be telling too much.  But let’s give it a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theater presents two other &#8216;make believe&#8217; tales by Peter Pan creator</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES&#8211;Playwright James M. Barrie is most famous for his familiar and much-loved fantasy Peter Pan.  However, he also produced a large body of other literary works that include two quaintly delicate playlets: Rosalind and The Old Lady Shows Her Medals.  These two are currently being staged in a delightful twosome titled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Broadsword&#8217;— Did the devil win this musical duel?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; It’s all about music, but nobody plays any.  It’s called Broadsword, but there appears to be some sort of taboo about mentioning the name and nobody on stage ever utters it.  And though it sounds like it should be a swashbuckler, nobody swashes or buckles.  Broadsword is the name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suppose you found an art masterpiece in a junk shop&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES&#8211;Bakersfield Mist is a brilliant new play written and directed by Stephen Sachs and starring the husband and wife team of Jenny O’Hara and Nick Ullett at the always-wonderful Fountain Theatre. The play is based on a true story, and Sachs has raised it to a fine art, literally.  A foul-mouthed ex-bartender [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jenny O&#8217;Hara, Nick Ullett team in theatre and life</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8211;Her email address begins with “nifttt”, which she says stands for “nothing is funnier than the truth.”  (It could also stand for “nifty,” which she most certainly is.)  For actor/director Jenny O’Hara, it’s a serious mantra.  As it is for her hilariously entertaining husband, actor Nick Ullett. Los Angeles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At least when you&#8217;re vulgar, use proper English</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron BURBANK, California &#8212; SEX! SEX! SEX! Okay, now that I’ve got your attention, let’s talk about English. That’s Maria Gobetti’s message in playwright Lissa Levin’s Sex and Education, now having its west coast premiere at the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank. Gobetti plays Ms. Edwards, a once-enthusiastic English teacher who is leaving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victory Theatre Center offers &#8216;Sex and Education,&#8217; in keeping with national preference for comedy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron BURBANK, California &#8211;&#8221;By the time Tom and I had finished building the theater, we had $25 left in the bank.” Maria Gobetti is talking about the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank that she and husband Tom Ormeny opened in 1979. Now, after more than 30 years, the Victory is still going strong, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Sylvia&#8217; is a fetching show</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 00:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California &#8211; In A.R. Gurney’s shaggy dog story, Sylvia, Tanna Frederick plays a pampered pooch dressed in tutus and tiaras.  You might call her a woof in chic clothing. Frederick, who has starred in four of playwright and filmmaker Henry Jaglom’s romantic comedies, Hollywood Dreams, Irene in Time, Queen of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie delights arts and literature junkies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 01:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[       By Cynthia Citron ENCINO, California &#8212; If Ernest Hemingway saw Paris in the ‘20s as a movable feast, Woody Allen, nearly a century later, sees it as a great big bowl of jellybeans: colorful, sweet, and totally addicting. From the first notes of jazz (can that be Allen playing jazz clarinet?) as backup to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Malcontent&#8217; on the stage, but not in the audience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 05:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD &#8212; It’s Jeffrey Schoenberg’s Spring 1603 Fashion Collection, and it’s what every Shakespearean scholar will be wearing this fall.  Or should wear this fall!  The most sumptuous silks, puffed pantaloons, gold-threaded lapels&#8212;brilliant costume designer Schoenberg has outdone himself! And oh yes, there’s a play to watch as well.  It’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Juno and the Paycock&#8217; tells Irish tale of poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 18:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8211; “Memory is the only thing that grief can call its own,”  Sean O’Casey wrote, and there is grief and memory enough to go around in his classic play Juno and the Paycock, now being performed at the Odyssey Theatre in West Los Angeles. Set in Dublin in 1922, the play [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play explores life of a Muslim lesbian</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 02:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron BURBANK, California&#8211; “All theater is a character telling a story—as if he were sitting around a campfire.” Playwright Wendy Graf is sitting at a table at a cafe in Burbank as she quotes iconic director Gordon Davidson. “And so what I’ve done is create a story especially for Anna.” To which Anna Khaja, sitting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jason Alexander perfectly cast for &#8216;Prisoner of Second Avenue&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 00:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California &#8212; Neil Simon and Jason Alexander would appear to be a theatrical match made in heaven.  And so they are. In Simon’s The Prisoner of Second Avenue, now running at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood, Alexander romps, rages, and unravels to early Simon at his most hilarious. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three New York plays winning standing ovations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron NEW YORK, N.Y. &#8211;  It was a “Three Standing Ovations” week!!  Not easy to come by in New York, where audiences reward only the very best.  (Not like Los Angeles audiences, who habitually award standing ovations to actors just for showing up.)  There is so much energy and anticipatory excitement generated in the elegant, intimate theaters on Broadway that it’s enough to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;God of Carnage&#8217; is Brooks in Woolf&#8217;s clothing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Cynthia Citron               LOS ANGELES &#8212; If Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? had been written by Mel Brooks, it would be God of Carnage. God of Carnage, Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning Best Play of 2009, brings four of Broadway’s best actors to the Ahmanson to drive each other into a riotous, scenery-chewing frenzy.  It also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Director has right stuff to do Sam Shepard&#8217;s play</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES &#8212; We have a live lamb on stage and she’s not housebroken—or, more accurately, stage-broken—so our first run-through was a bit redolent,” director Scott Paulin says. He’s talking about the newly revised version of Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class, which makes its Los Angeles premiere this week at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Escort&#8217; may challenge what you think about sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES&#8211;A middle-aged couple, once married but now divorced long enough to have gotten over their various grievances and resentments, have become casual friends.  Would it be feasible, he suggests, for them to become Friends With Benefits?  After all, neither of them has potential partners beating down their doors.  And, as successful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Cripple of Inishmaan&#8217; is an able-bodied play</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Citron CULVER CITY, California &#8212; If talk radio hosts didn’t exist, somebody would have to invent them.  Somebody already has.  It’s playwright Martin McDonagh, who brings us the character of JohnnyPateenMike, the town gossip in The Cripple of Inishmaan. JohnnyPateenMike  considers himself a “journalist” as he delivers the “news” door to door on [...]]]></description>
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