17 stories by "Sarah A. Spitz"
LIFE ON REWIND In a co-production with HorseChart Theatre, Rogue Machine Theatre continues its astounding season with John Kolvenbach's gem of a play, Reel to Reel, a heart-warming, but defi…
SOBER TRUTHS AND SLIPPERY MEMORIES IN A COMIC, CHAOTIC QUEST FOR CLARITY Alcoholism and Alzheimer's. What a combo. Sounds serious, right? They both are, of course. But in the hands of playwr…
SMALL LIVES, BIG TRUTHS What's a nice girl to do? Upstairs at The Matrix, Rogue Machine Theatre is putting on another winner of a show, Nice Girl by Melissa Ross. It's a small dram…
THE GOOD AND EVIL IN BOTH WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT AND AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION The concept sounded so intriguing that I begged to review this experimental theatre piece, White Rabbit, Red Rabb…
PILLOW FIGHTS, PLOT TWISTS AND PARENTAL PANIC If you like your family comedies with a hearty dose of mayhem, secrets, slapstick humor, and the occasional gymnastic leap off a sofa, Foster…
Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do. " American essayist Sloane Crosley First, I want to acknowled…
AN HONEST INTERVIEW ABOUT LYING Tom Moran is many things: a stage and film actor, a writer, a voice-over artist, a budding author, and a podcast host of Personality Bingo. Under the auspi…
BURNING BRIDGES It takes a brave soul to speak out about getting back at those who got you cancelled, especially when the names that are blamed can theoretically destroy any chance of contin…
70 YEARS ON, AND WE'RE STILL WAITING You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. " Alber…
WICKEDLY WITTY WILDE Sometimes you just need to take refuge from the contemporary world with a classic play. And when it's delivered as delightfully and professionally as Antaeus Theatre Com…
LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE There's Gounod's Faust (the opera), Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (the novel), Christopher Marlowe's Faust (the play), then there's the classic Faust " Johann Wol…
STAR-CROSSED … AND TOSSED Think of The 7 Fingers (Les 7 doigts de la main) as a mini Cirque du Soleil performing onstage instead of in a ring under a Big Tent. This Montreal-based circus t…
GRANDMA'S A BADASS It's Grandma Maria Porkalob Sr.'s 60th birthday party, she's living in her son's mother-in-law basement and he's just given her a karaoke machine as her birthday present. …
THIS SIZE FITS ALL Opening the 2024/25 season of Geffen Playhouse is The Brothers Size, written by the Geffen's Artistic Director Tarell Alvin McCraney, performed in the smaller of the Playh…
CLUELESS NO MORE As a kid, I never played the Hasbro board game Clue, nor did I ever see the Paramount Pictures movie based on that board game. But at opening night on July 31, I was absolut…
ESPIONAGE COMES TO GROUP THERAPY There's a pretty good reason why the world premiere of Greg Ostrin's The Spy Who Went Into Rehab, onstage at Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, has been ext…
THE SUBSTANCE OF ROB MORROW Actor Rob Morrow has come full circle. The Emmy-nominated Northern Exposure star, recognized for other notable TV shows (Billions, Numb3rs, The People vs. OJ Simp…
