It’s good, but we’ve had ‘What They Have’ before

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If you loved HBO’s Six Feet Under, you’ll wish that What They Have was about a dysfunctional family that runs a quirky suburban funeral parlor. This new play by Kate Robin (one of the writers of the late cable-TV series) has everything that made [...]

But on a certain level, Culture Clash will always be three dudes from East L.A.

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It’s a month before their month-long residency at South Coast Repertory, and the three men of Culture Clash haven’t done their homework.
“Who’ve you talked to so far?” we ask them one morning, as they claim they spend months [...]

A ladylike solution to the irritatingly enjoyable ‘A Feminine Ending’
From the very first sentence of A Feminine Ending at South Coast Repertory, I wanted to sneak behind the lead, Brooke Bloom (last seen as Ophelia in SCR’s magnificent Hamlet), and give her a hard, nasty pinch on the back of the arm, right where it [...]