Category Archives: Reviews

Stagehappenings by Tony Frankel Course One (Primer Plato): The Story. Two unnamed political prisoners, languishing in an Argentine maximum security prison, are allowed only one hour each Sunday to congregate: the inmates make use of storytelling, specifically Cervantes’ Don Quixote, as a means to find solace under great duress. This...

TUE MAR 1, 2011 This is Anthony Byrnes Opening the Curtain on LA Theatre for KCRW. During Argentina’s “dirty war” in the 1970′s, the state imprisoned dissidents and other undesirables, including many artists. For some, their treatment was extreme. They were kept in solitary confinement. Their only chance to interact...

AROUND THAN ONE IMAGINES By Harvey Perr on November 21, 2010 StageAndCinema.com There is so much theater activity in Los Angeles that there is bound to be a lot of good theater. But I have been so burned out by the extraordinary amount of bad theater I’ve had to sit...

Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, Mexico, and La Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa, Mexico, with and at 24th Street Theatre Reviewed by Jennie Webb www.backstage.com November 04, 2010 From the opening moments of playwright-director Aristides Vargas’ simple yet amazingly textured theatrical journey, we know we’re not in Kansas anymore. The...

By Diane Lefer posted on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 from the LA Progressive Legend has it that Cervantes was locked in a jail cell when he began to write the adventures of Don Quijote and Sancho Panza. Centuries later, exiled Argentinean theatre artist Arístides Vargas linked the Spanish classic of...