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Two actors in 'The Night of the Iguana' at Boston Court Pasadena.

NOC Review: ‘The Night of the Iguana’ at Boston Court Pasadena

Rosana Maris Arias

Boston Court Pasadena’s production of The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams opened on September 11. Set at the Costa Verde hotel in a quiet Mexican village in 1940, at the cusp of Hitler’s advancement on Europe, the rarely staged play tells the story of Episcopal clergyman Reverend Shannon (Riley Shanahan), who is in constant anguish as he questions his faith, God, and his choices, all while on the hotel property of Maxine Faulk (Julanne Chidi Hill) who recently became a widow.

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A Los Angeles Theatre Review: ‘Macbeth’

Edward Hong

I do have a sincere (and most likely minority) belief that Shakespeare plays need to be retired as more often than not, it just does not need to be done. It is however an often safe and boring choice for many PWI theatres and a guarantee to hire mostly white actors dishing out their favorite monologues to varying amounts of success.

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A Los Angeles Theatre Review: ‘The Bluest Eye’

Edward Hong

Staged adaptations of novels usually don’t end up working well as they are clunky at best and downright tedious at worst. Thankfully, the staged version of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is one of the few works that so vividly brings the novel’s words to life, thanks to the fine adaptation of Lydia R. Diamond.

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