Up on the Marquee: JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN
by Jennifer Broski - Feb 12, 2025
John Proctor is the Villain is coming to Broadway soon! The new play by Kimberly Belflower, with direction by Tony Award winner Danya Taymor, is led by Sadie Sink. Check out photos of the new marquee at the Booth Theatre here.
Review: CLYDE'S at Mark Taper Forum
by Tracey Paleo - Nov 26, 2022
Quite possibly, a perfect production. Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage’s Tony Award-nominated CLYDE’S at the Mark Taper Forum is heartfelt, funny, and seriously delicious.
Interview: Making Great Sandwiches Makes for a Great Life for CLYDE'S Reza Salazar
by Gil Kaan - Nov 16, 2022
Clyde’s, the latest work of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, just opened at the Mark Taper Forum November 15, 2022. Clyde’s centers around a truck stop (Clyde’s) staffed by rehabilitating ex-cons. Kate Whoriskey directs the cast of Kevin Kenerly, Tamberla Perry, Reza Salazar, Nedra Snipes and Garrett Young. Reza managed to squeeze out some time in between rehearsals to answer a few of my queries.
Center Theatre Group Announces Community Events
To Celebrate CLYDE'S
by Stephi Wild - Nov 11, 2022
Los Angeles' largest theatre company will host several events to celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of Los Angeles, nurture lifelong learning and human connection, and connect audiences with artists that are working at the highest levels of their own experience and craft with several events happening in November and December.
West Coast Premiere of CLYDE'S to Open at the Mark Taper Forum in November
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 25, 2022
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage and director Kate Whoriskey will bring their latest Broadway triumph, “Clyde’s,” a co-production with Goodman Theatre in Chicago to the Mark Taper Forum November 15 to December 18. It recently concluded the Goodman engagement.
Review: CLYDE'S at Goodman Theatre
by Rachel Weinberg - Sep 21, 2022
In CLYDE’S, playwright Lynn Nottage posits that salvation comes in the form of a sandwich...in more ways than one.
BWW Review: TRAYF at The Geffen Playhouse
by Andrew Child - Mar 11, 2022
The thing about Lindsay Joelle’s Trayf, now playing at the Geffen Playhouse, is that it has really excellent dialogue. In every sense of the word. The opening patter between two Chassidic teenage boys fizzes like a sketch comedy routine and the rhythm carries like a current through a lot of silliness and a lot of seriousness.
BWW Interview: Playwright Lindsay Joelle Always Making Her Work TRAYF-ier
by Gil Kaan - Mar 3, 2022
Geffen Playhouse’s next live production in their Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater, Lindsay Joelle’s TRAYF opens March 10th (with previews already in progress). Maggie Burrows directs the cast of Ilan Eskenazi, Ben Hirschhorn, Louisa Jacobson and Garrett Young. For those unfamiliar with the term “trayf,” Oxford Language dictionary defines trayf as “adjective: (of food) not satisfying the requirements of Jewish law.” I had the opportunity to throw out a few questions to Lindsay amidst her final rehearsals.