Cynthia Citron is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer specializing in coverage of the arts.
Her published books, available on Amazon, include:
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES–You wouldn’t think you could make a theater piece out of a textbook on acting, but Beau Bridges and his daughter Emily have done it—beautifully. The book is “Acting: The First Six Lessons” by Polish director and actor Richard Boleslavsky, and if all teachers were as articulate and emotionally charged as […]
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By Cynthia Citron BURBANK, California–A writer with severe writer’s block posts a sign in the window of his basement apartment. It announces that he will perform a psychic reading for $25. And so begins Sam Bobrick’s delightfully farcical new comedy The Psychic, now having its world premiere at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank. Jeffrey Cannata is Adam Webster, the psychic, but he provides a hint
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Heidi Schreck and Deirdre O’Connell (Craig Schwartz photo) By Cynthia Citron CULVER CITY, California – The Wake is a play with a lot of p’s in it: politics, philosophy, polemics, passion, and pathos. And enough plot for two plays. In fact, “The Wake” is two plays. One is the love story: boy loves girl, girl thinks she loves boy, girl loves girl, boy waits it out,
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Cynthia Citron, USABy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES – Who knew sex could be so tedious? In David Hare’s The Blue Room 11 acts of intercourse are conducted without heat, or charm, or intimacy, or humor, or foreplay. The acotrs climb all over each other into a black out, and from there, it’s just “wham, bam, thank you, ma’am” and “Where are my shoes?” Moreover, if a cardinal rule of acting
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Cynthia CitronBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Emails, phone calls and snail mail–an editor never knows what the day will bring. Here’s the most recent sampling: POLITICS—The Republican candidacy of former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Nick Popaditch in the 51st Congressional District has prompted incumbent Bob Filner, chairman of the House Veteran Affairs Committee, to caution supporters that “there
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BROADS CAST — Ivonne Coll, June Gable, Barbara Niles, and Leslie Easterbrook at rehearsal for “Broads! the Musical” at the El Portal Forum Theatre in North Hollywood. Photo: Cynthia Citron __________________________________________________ By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD – “I’m just blown away to see how theater in LA has changed in recent years,” June Gable said. “It’s
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Adam Christopher and Joshua Grenrock in “Circus Welt” at the Whitefire Theatre ________________________________________________________ By Cynthia Citron SHERMAN OAKS, California– Even three-quarters of a century later, the sight of a troop of Hitler’s brownshirts, their left arms emblazoned with a swastika band, can cause a chill in the most stalwart of audiences. The setting is Germany in
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Cynthia CitronBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Film critics have been brutally dismissive of Rob Marshall’s new film “Nine.” (It received only a 38% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.) So I have to tell you, I LOVED it! Based on Federico Fellini’s surrealistic and autobiographical 1963 film “8 1/2,” and the 1982 Broadway musical “Nine,”
To other movie critics who panned 'Nine': Nein! Read More »
Cynthia CitronBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES— Ever since the government permitted Native Americans to establish—and keep the proceeds from—their own gambling casinos, there has been a stampede among people of many different ethnic backgrounds to claim their “Indian heritage.” This “rush to authenticity”—no matter how remote—is a running gag in Richard Montoya’s new play Palestine, New Mexico,
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Cynthia CitronBy Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD – To be an artist is to be an outsider. A loner. A person overwhelmed by his passions. And more than a little insane. That’s the premise of Stacy Sims’ play As White As O, now having its world premiere at the Road Theatre in North Hollywood. In sympathy and fascination
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Cynthia CitronBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Despite the continuous roars of approval from the jazzed-up opening night crowd at the Ahmanson, Mary Poppins, in the long run, is a bit of a disappointment. And I DO mean in the long run. At three hours, the production is at least an hour too long: there are
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Cynthia CitronBy Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD–Thirty years after playwright Edward Albee dealt with the demons he encountered in academia during his student days at Trinity College in Hartford by writing the terrifying Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? he dealt with the other demons of his youth in his play Three Tall Women.” He won his third Pulitzer
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