Chaos is dull. That which goes right is poetry," declares Gabriel Syme, the protagonist in G.K. Chesterton's 1908 metaphysical/satirical novel, "The Man Who Was Thursday." But in Bilal Darda…
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As part of its politically incisive season, Tim Robbins' company takes on the Nobel Prize winner's wild play about corrupt authority, "Accidental Death oh an Anarchist."
Opportunities to see high-caliber productions of the work of Dario Fo " the Italian clown, political radical and Nobel laureate who died in 2016 " don't come around all that often. My one go…
A radically revisionist "Antigone" made in the Black Lives Matter era seems the ideal vehicle to launch us into Black History Month and lead our weekly look at L.A.'s theater scene. Other pi…
Dario Fo's dark comedy still deserves its reputation as a classic.
Outraged at conformity and drawn to theatricality, Mr. Williams aimed to effect change with language.
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From the archive: The Guardian's review, published on 16 October 1979, for the London production of Fo's classic play, starring Alfred Molina at the Half MoonWe tend to associate political t…
The story told in Underscore Theatre's world premiere is not only of historical significance but one with a sweep and grandeur worthy of musical theater. Writers Alex Higgin-Houser and compo…
The making of a new musical is as daunting as a jigsaw puzzle. The challenge can be ratcheted up when all of the pieces seem to be the same color: a blue sky melting into a mountain stream. …
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History's first anarchist will re-appear onstage in Korach, a new production from The Living Theatre written and directed by the theatre's founder and current artistic director, Judith Malin…
Judith Malina, legendary co-founder of the Living Theater, tells the biblical story of the rebellious Korach as a prototype for anarchists through the ages.
Dario Fo's political comedy is presented in broad brushstrokes, but his grotesque comic vision remains clear.
After bombing on Broadway, David Mamet's problematic two-hander lands on Hollywood's Theatre Row, starring Felicity Huffman and Rebecca Pidgeon.read more
"Words not meant to misdirect are wasted," says one of the combatants in "The Anarchist," and at certain levels that might describe the whole thing.