There is a morbid fascination with lives lost or thrown away, the puzzlement of people sinking into hoarding, the zoning out, the giving up and giving in to squalor. Who would have thought that you could make a musical based on such a premise, let alone a pretty compelling one? Apparently, Doug Wright (author of …
Anthony Giardina’s The City of Conversation is certainly a well-named play since it is located in Washington, DC (well, Georgetown), where the talk is mostly political, mostly civil (by 1979 standards), the conflicts mostly familial, and where the two are inextricably linked. Now on view at The Wallis in Beverly Hills, The City of Conversation …
Any life of a certain duration is full of large and small migrations. The good and the bad. And anyone over 50 can appreciate that the rapid societal changes we’ve sustained in the last 60 years have made for larger than normal earthquakes in our personal memories. Watching the splendid revival on the Ahmanson stage …
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