Columnist · September 24, 2026
A Case for the Existence of God sounds like a theology class I might have taken at Georgetown, my alma mater: St. Augustine, Thomas Merton, and Martin Buber on one […]
Columnist · August 27, 2026
Noel Coward’s Waiting in the Wings, currently at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum through Sat., Oct. 3, premiered in London 66 years ago this past August. Coward’s longtime producer had […]
Columnist · April 23, 2026
Sanaz Toossi, the author of English at the Wallis in Beverly Hills (to Sun., April 26), wrote her play as a response to President Trump’s 2016 “Muslim” ban. The play […]
Columnist · January 29, 2026
Early January is a theatrical dead zone in Los Angeles. The Nutcrackers have packed up, Tiny Tim is skiing in Mammoth, and actors are lumbering back into studios as rehearsals […]
Columnist · January 28, 2021
For Valentine’s Day last year (O tempora, o mores!), the inestimable Mrs. F asked me what I would like to do. Rather than dining at one of our favorite restaurants […]
Columnist · December 31, 2020
January, as Professor Know-It-All might have told us before he retired, is named after Janus, the Roman god of gates, doors, transitions and new beginnings. Representations of Janus show him […]
