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Yasmina Reza Is No Albee, But That Doesn’t Stop NVA’s Excellent ‘Carnage’

By Martin Jones Westlin | October 25, 2016 |

Playwright Yasmina Reza says we’re all kids at heart — and that’s not necessarily a compliment. Witness her ‘God of Carnage,’ the very good current mount at Carlsbad’s New Village Arts, and the abject childishness that so-called adults trot out when the veneers they’ve worked so hard to build are threatened. Indeed, the sins of the children are visited on those over 21.

NVA’s Fair ‘Stage Kiss’ Has a Hard Time Coming Up for Air

By Martin Jones Westlin | February 9, 2015 |

Farce is pretty cool when it doesn’t look like farce, and that’s pretty much the case in the first act of New Village Arts’ West Coast premiere of ‘Stage Kiss.’ The mystery is that there’s not much play to illuminate it.