Posts Tagged ‘Rajiv Joseph’
‘Fly’ Needs More Help to Rise at La Jolla Playhouse
Everybody knows what’s supposed to happen in ‘Peter Pan.’ Some of it does in the raucous La Jolla Playhouse version. Some doesn’t.
Read MoreIt’s Hands-Off Policy for the Taj Mahal at La Jolla Playhouse
The Taj Mahal is just finished and the king wants to be sure there will never be its equal in beauty. So he orders that all those who built the building have their hands cut off. And, in a dismal fable titled ‘Guards at the Taj’ now on the La Jolla Playhouse stage at UCSD, two low-ranking sentries are selected and…
Read MoreIon Theatre Stalks a Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Among the ghosts roaming the battered streets of post-invasion Baghdad is the late tiger exhibit at the zoo, in Rajiv Joseph’s surreal play now at the Ion Theatre. It’s a double triumph for actor/director Claudio Raygoza and the make-believe marines look and act like the real thing…
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