Frédérik Sisa

  Lotus Pond 1. The Secret of Crossroads Silvered stillness; ruin paints the ghost fen. A funeral fog sighs and sidles an old jagged mute mount. Lone errant gothic – abyssal...

What ever happened to teenaged Abigail Williams? Last we heard, she escaped Arthur Miller’s The Crucible – and the ruin she catalyzed in Salem...

Review of I and You by Lauren Gunderson, on stage at the Fountain Theatre. I and You begins with a scenario that is beautiful in...

Review of Corktown '57 on stage at the Odyssey Theatre. Science-fiction author Frank Herbert rightly observed that “Blood is thicker than water, but politics are...

A review of Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics - 1941 -1948 by Noah Berlatsky.  When Warner Bros. and DC announced that Wonder...

The Odyssey Theatre will present the world premiere of John Fazakerley’s family drama, Corktown ’57 this month. Set in Philadelphia’s pro-Irish Republican community of...

A Review of End of the Rainbow, on stage at the Long Beach International City Theatre. Set during Judy Garland’s attempted comeback at London’s Talk...

Ah, that new website smell. There’s nothing quite like it on the internet. It has been a while since we have had the scent...

Reviews of French Revolutions for Beginners and The History of Classical Music for Beginners. Whatever revolutionary impulses might lurk in the mind of contemporary America’s body politic have, with the exception of a few flare-ups here and there, been effectively muddled, diffused, and ultimately deflected. French Revolutions for Beginners by attorney and professor Michael J. Lamonica isn’t a dissection of American politics, past or present, but it does offer insight – a tonic for complacency, perhaps? - into the revolutionary spirit via France’s dramatic shedding of the old ...

For the prize of a virtual candy cane, here’s a riddle: What holiday event is charming, cheerful, indispensable, and quintessentially L.A.? Okay, so it’s a bit of cheat because there really are two such events, the Rose Parade being one of them. The other is the annual L.A. County Holiday Celebration produced by the L.A. Arts Commission on behalf of the Board of Supervisors. Each year, close to 5,000 people visit the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to enjoy the performance in-person – for free – while over a million people tune in to the live television broadcast. I’m going to be one of those 5,000. How about you?