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 — It’s a film that will stay with you long after the final credits roll. Not only because it’s one helluva good film, but also because it’s Robert Redford’s last film. At least he said it is. He announced his retirement last year just before shooting The Old Man and […]
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — The play Mysterious Circumstances consists of seven actors playing some 26 different characters, as well as “others” too insignificant to identify specifically. And so the stage was a chaos of people coming and going, often dressed in costumes very different from the ones in which they had previously appeared, and delivering their crucial commentary in a variety of nearly impenetrable British
Sherlock Holmes fan himself subject of a deep mystery Read More »
Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — It’s difficult to watch Barra Grant portray her mother in the biographical play that she authored without remembering the devastating biography that Christina Crawford wrote about her own mother, Joan.Grant’s mother was Bess Myerson, the only Jewish girl ever to be named Miss America, and the title of Barra’s play, Miss America’s Ugly Daughter, establishes the tone
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Cynthia Citron SHERMAN OAKS, California — Can you imagine seeing the name “Melvyn Kaplofkis” up in lights on Broadway? Well, neither could he. So he changed it to “Mel King” and became “The King of Brooklyn.” But the Jewish stand-up comic in this one-man show is actually named Danny DiTorrice and he tells his
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD, California — At some point in his life the thinking man will usually ask himself three important questions: Who—or what—am I? Where am I? and How did I get here? At this point in time a select group of thinking men have come up with two distinct hypotheses. Unfortunately, the two
Now a play on creation vs. evolution debate Read More »
Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Friends who have similar personalities and mannerisms sometimes joke about being “twins separated at birth.” It’s not a joke, however, to a set of triplets born in New York in 1961. They were together in the hospital until they were six months old, at which time they were separated
Film Review: ‘Three Identical Strangers’ Read More »
Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Several hundred women—and a smattering of men—gathered at a lovely home in the Brentwood area this past Sunday to participate in the opening of the 11th season of the Jewish Women’s Theater. Abiding by its overall mission of “celebrating Jewish life onstage, one story at a time”, the JWT
In America they left their mark Read More »
Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — It’s a magical movie. In a foreign language. With no subtitles. And it’s one of the most intense experiences you’ll have in a movie—even if you don’t know what they’re talking about. You may want to walk out, but stay with it. It’s worth it. It’s history.It’s First Man, the story of what it took to get
Armstrong makes good on Kennedy’s promise Read More »
Cynthia Citron, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — If I were to list all the accolades and awards that Stephen Sachs has won over his long career as a playwright, a director, and as co-artistic director of the Fountain Theatre, there wouldn’t be any room left to tell you about his latest play, Arrival and Departure. Suffice it to say, Stephen
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California — In a telephone call to Ernie, who is downstairs in a formal black suit, Charlie, who is upstairs in pajamas, announces that he has gone temporarily blind. But that comes later and isn’t exactly true. Actually, Charlie is in his bedroom, bleeding all over the rug from a
Rumors not Neil Simon’s only specialty Read More »
Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD—The play Somewhere in the Middle is about three generations of a family living together somewhere in the Midwest. For once, they are not a dysfunctional family, a subject that many playwrights these days tend to focus on. This family is an affectionate, intelligent, funny, and reasonably harmonious company. The older
Catch ‘Some where in the Middle’ before it closes Read More »
Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — As producer Gary Grossman explains it, the mission of the Skylight Theatre Company is to present only world premieres. No revivals, no imports from London or New York, no old rehashes of plays from the 1930s. Just brand new plays to be introduced to Los Angeles and the world
Where, Oh Where is Angelica? Read More »
Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California — The attractive middle-aged couple is having a fight. It’s not one of those screaming, throwing-things-at-each-other kind of fights. Rather, it’s the irritable kind of bickering where every time he opens his mouth she argues with whatever he has to say. This time the argument is about selling the house they have lived
Three couples zoned out at The Secret Rose Theatre Read More »
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By Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California — “The world would be a better place if everyone would just do what I say!” Annie Korzen Famous Actress announces as she begins her one-woman show detailing the traumas and triumphs of her colorful life. As a “Jewish comedienne” Korzen’s performance encompasses all the quirks and mishegas that
Korzen, once Seinfeld’s nudnik, in one woman show Read More »
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