Coleman Hough is a poet, playwright, and screenwriter. Her screen credits include Bubble and Full Frontal, both directed by Steven Soderbergh. Her plays have been produced in Los Angeles at Theatre of N.O.T.E. and Padua Playwrights. She has performed her monologues in NYC and LA. Her poems have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, The Louisville Review, …
First, let me say that I finished this piece just days before the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris. “Je suis Charlie,” and I have not changed a single word. On Friday, January 2, I read, with distress, in the Los Angeles Times‘ “Year in Review” a grim and disturbing piece entitled “Militant Islam’s 2014 March”. In …
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Cultural Weekly readers are an inventive bunch. Last week, I asked you to help me come up with a Tall Tale that would explain how I broke my ankle. The prize? A free lunch, and listeners who will not be bored by my mundane reality. Every entry had its merits. Tricia’s one-liner, “Can’t remember if …
COSTA MESA — Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man is not a new play, but it is the first play he wrote that brought him notoriety, and a New York production that put him on the map as one of the most promising young playwrights writing today. It premiered in Montclair, NJ, at Luna Stage, in …
Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance gets a more shaded interpretation in Pam MacKinnon’s thoughtful revival. The 1966 play was received with quizzical shrugs by the press and audiences in its initial edition and closed after a brief run. It won the Pulitzer, but many saw that as a consolation prize after Albee had been denied the award …
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Indie films trounce studio movies for creative Oscar nominations
This week, it’s my privilege to write about a very special and unprecedented event coming to Los Angeles’ Royce Hall, via UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA): “So Blue,” the first company work created by Louise Lecavalier Fou Glorieux. I was first introduced to the work of Louise Lecavalier at the Sundance …
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