Christopher Moscatiello Archives

“The Things We Do” at Odyssey Theatre

Posted by Christine Deitner | 11th Apr 2019 | Los Angeles, Review, Theatre and Age, United States of America

The latest guest production at Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles is Grant Woods’ The Things We...

Block Party and “Rotterdam” at the Kirk Douglas

Posted by Christine Deitner | 5th Apr 2019 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, Los Angeles, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

The Center Theatre Group’s second Block Party show at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Century City is...

Brian Friel’s “Faith Healer” At The Odyssey Theatre

Posted by Christine Deitner | 30th Mar 2019 | Los Angeles, Review, United States of America

It is the Odyssey Theatre’s 50th Anniversary Season and in honor of this wonderful accomplishment the company starts off with an intimate and powerful bang with Brian Friel’s “Faith Healer” as directed by Ron Sossi, the company’s artistic director. In the program notes Mr. Sossi points out that though the theatre launched in 1969 and the play didn’t appear on the scene until the late 1970s, the play seems a “most apt prelude to the[ir] retrospective” season due to its innovative role in developing what we now know as the ‘monologue play’. It was also the first play the company performed when they opened their new/current space 30 years prior on S. Sepulveda Blvd in Los Angeles.

“The Dance Of Death” At The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble

Posted by Christine Deitner | 26th Oct 2017 | Adaptation, Los Angeles, Review, United States of America

Trapped in an atmosphere rife with the air of past punishment and with no concrete tasks to take up their time, Alice [Lizzy Kimball] and The Captain [Darrell Larson] play cards, say they will allow themselves one drink then pour three or more over the course of an evening, and argue with an off-stage cook about a dinner that never arrives. They wonder whether they should take on another lover and recall how the last threesome went. If this doesn’t sound like Strindberg to you, you’ve been missing out for not only is the play as sexually explicit as one could get in its time, it is also brutally funny and Ms. Kimball and Mr. Larson know exactly how to use both elements to their most effective ends as they engage in a slowly building battle for supremacy over the other.