45 stories by "Dale Reynolds"
2023 COMES TO 1776 The founding of the United States of America has always been largely misunderstood, even by its own citizens. Fifty landowners got together in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a…
I'M JUST A DANDY LION Homophobia may still be somewhat of a problem in today's entertainment arenas, but it isn't nearly as chaotic for queer artists who, nine decades ago, had to go underco…
BOLÉRO: BEAUTIFUL SYMPTOM OF A TERRIBLE DISEASE FOR BOTH PAINTER AND COMPOSER Based on true events and incorporating research and interviews conducted by playwright Jake Broder as a Hell…
HAIL, CAESAR! Shakespeare's 1599 history play has, of course, had many lives " conservative as well as wildly interpretive " which has kept the slain Dictator of Rome in the forefront of our…
ENDURING THE MONSTER Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) wrote her famous "ghost story," Frankenstein, in 1818, while on a vacation on Lake Geneva with her husband, the poet Percy Shelle…
EARLY BIRDS GETS THE BIRD The phrase "early bird" generally denotes someone who is an early-morning riser or who shows up anywhere early, words usually attributed to the elderly. In Dana Sch…
LOSADA COLADA! Looking at photos of Euriamis Losada, it's no wonder the female (and some part of the male) populace goes gaga at his looks on his muscular 6' frame. Cuban-born and USA-raised…
THE LUCK OF THE IRISH AMBASSADOR Pat Kinevane, 51, is a native of rural Ireland — specifically County Cork — now living and working in Dublin, the capitol of Eire. A qualified sp…
MOVE OVER BOND AND BOURNE; HAMILTON’S IN TOWN These two hard-hitting spy thrillers, filmed in 2012, are based on well-known novels by the French-Swedish journalist, Jan Guillou (b. 194…
AS YOU MAY OR MAY NOT LIKE IT At its new home in Glendale, Antaeus Theatre’s second play, As You Like It, is an odd duck of a production. As is its norm, Antaeus "partner-casts" each p…
A STEADY PLAY What police personnel go through day-by-day isn't really fully understood by civilians: the life-and-death tensions that alternate with the inevitable boredom and the public's …
A MARRIAGE MADE IN HELL Tom Jacobson's latest play, The Devil's Wife, is a droll take on old European tales regarding evil demons and feckless wives. Here, the Devil, in the guise of rich la…
CURE YOUR POLITICAL HANGOVER WITH CULTURE CLASH Founded in 1984, L.A.'s very own veteran satirical Latino comedy troupe, "Culture Clash” (Herbert Siguenza, Ric Salinas and Richard Mont…
A BRUTAL TRUE-LIFE EVENT IS THE BASIS FORÂ POWERFUL THEATER Katharine Cortez' 80-minute take on the after-effects of the brutal slaying of 49 people at the LGBT dance-bar, PULSE, a year ag…
ELEMENTARY BUT AMUSING Unbound Productions takes original material and sets it in vaguely similar settings using carefully-chosen actors and company directors; the company has been produc…
THERE’S NO INTERFERING WITH GREAT THEATER What an extraordinary piece of theater was this Hollywood Fringe entry from Pepperdine University in Malibu. The Interference confronts the di…
SWEETHEART DEAL IS A MISSED ROMANCE There's been scant theater documenting the plight of the Latino farm workers and their fight for economic and racial equality, especially in California. A…
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS As a part of A Noise Within's 25th Season, co-Artistic Director Julia Rodriguez-Elliott helms an extraordinary production of this 1964 hit musical, Man of La Mancha, ad…
UP ON THE ROOF Tennessee Williams' complete oeuvre went from totally brilliant to completely flat as he evolved in his work, beginning in the early 1940s and ending in the early ’80s. …
A CAROUSEL FOR THE AGES Concert versions of famous Broadway fare are almost always exciting and delightful. But the Live from Lincoln Center production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's …
The Doctor Who series " one of the longest-running adventure dramas in television history " is definitely not for everyone's taste. The stories, all science fiction in nature, tend to the ob…
Adapted from the crime novels of James Runcie, the TV series Grantchester is set in a small bucolic section of England, namely Cambridgeshire, and sees youngish vicar Sidney Chambers (James …
It is the Age of Enlightenment, even in monarchy-bound Sweden, and the police force there is essentially honest, but hemmed-in by royal connections. But the new district police commissioner …
Scientology, as a religion and as a semi-cult, has been earning censure since it was first launched in 1953, thanks to its dubious connections to the norms of religion: belief in a strong af…
Critically acclaimed English playwright, screenwriter and theatre & film director Sir David Hare has also written extensively for television. His sensational trilogy about ex-spy Johnny …
