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I saw “Cats” when it first opened on Broadway a million years ago.  The performers all wore skates as they...

By Cynthia Citron A few weeks ago I was terribly disappointed when "Capernaum", a beautifully made film from Lebanon about...

by Cynthia Citron It's difficult to watch Barra Grant portray her mother in the biographical play that she authored without...

By Cynthia Citron Capernaum.  A lovely name for a village near the sea.  Surrounded by blue mountains, with the sun...

by Cynthia Citron It starts off like a house on fire.  Then after a while they burn down the library....

By Cynthia Citron "Death House" is not a play for the faint of heart. But if it were a film...

By Cynthia Citron It is touted as thrilling and chilling. But I found it muddled, and it left me befuddled....

by Cynthia Citron Wheeler is an unhappy man, drifting through life without direction, without ambition, without compassion, without hope. A...

by Cynthia Citron Can you imagine seeing the name "Melvyn Kaplofkis" up in lights on Broadway? Well, neither could he....

Tuesday was my good friend and Santa Monica resident since 1963, Jerry Rosenblum's 97th birthday. The word that best describes...