Archive for Hit
HIT at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
Whenever I read about the artistic scandals of the past — the near-riot provoked by Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring," for example — I glumly conclude that we have grown so jaded that art has lost its power to appall. Read more…
Steven Leigh Morris – Stage Raw
Playwright Alice Tuan's description of her own play's title, Hit, as explained in her program note, suggests a work so fragmented that one scene has little to do with the next: "I started by writing five scenes where each scene had some sort of hit in it; hit by a car, hit on by an older woman, hit of a joint, a hit in the eye. . . " Read more…
Jonas Schwartz - TheaterMania
The new play Hit by Alice Tuan, currently playing Los Angeles Theatre Center, unevenly shifts from hard-hitting drama to black comedy to avant-garde theater yet never makes clear its intentions. And though the actors are skilled professionals, they are not able to make the script's unlikable characters relateable. Read more…
Now running through June 8.
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