Cynthia Citron

Cynthia Citron

Cynthia Citron is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer specializing in coverage of the arts.

Her published books, available on Amazon, include:

Victory Theatre Center offers ‘Sex and Education,’ in keeping with national preference for comedy

By Cynthia Citron BURBANK, California –“By the time Tom and I had finished building the theater, we had $25 left in the bank.” Maria Gobetti is talking about the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank that she and husband Tom Ormeny opened in 1979. Now, after more than 30 years, the Victory is still going strong, […]

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‘Sylvia’ is a fetching show

By Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California — In A.R. Gurney’s shaggy dog story, Sylvia, Tanna Frederick plays a pampered pooch dressed in tutus and tiaras.  You might call her a woof in chic clothing. Frederick, who has starred in four of playwright and filmmaker Henry Jaglom’s romantic comedies, Hollywood Dreams, Irene in Time, Queen of the

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‘Malcontent’ on the stage, but not in the audience

  By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD — It’s Jeffrey Schoenberg’s Spring 1603 Fashion Collection, and it’s what every Shakespearean scholar will be wearing this fall.  Or should wear this fall!  The most sumptuous silks, puffed pantaloons, gold-threaded lapels—brilliant costume designer Schoenberg has outdone himself! And oh yes, there’s a play to watch as well.  It’s

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Jason Alexander perfectly cast for ‘Prisoner of Second Avenue’

By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California — Neil Simon and Jason Alexander would appear to be a theatrical match made in heaven.  And so they are. In Simon’s The Prisoner of Second Avenue, now running at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood, Alexander romps, rages, and unravels to early Simon at his most hilarious.

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Three New York plays winning standing ovations

By Cynthia Citron NEW YORK, N.Y. —  It was a “Three Standing Ovations” week!!  Not easy to come by in New York, where audiences reward only the very best.  (Not like Los Angeles audiences, who habitually award standing ovations to actors just for showing up.)  There is so much energy and anticipatory excitement generated in the elegant, intimate theaters on Broadway that it’s enough to

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‘God of Carnage’ is Brooks in Woolf’s clothing

 By Cynthia Citron               LOS ANGELES — If Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? had been written by Mel Brooks, it would be God of Carnage. God of Carnage, Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning Best Play of 2009, brings four of Broadway’s best actors to the Ahmanson to drive each other into a riotous, scenery-chewing frenzy.  It also

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‘The Escort’ may challenge what you think about sex

By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES–A middle-aged couple, once married but now divorced long enough to have gotten over their various grievances and resentments, have become casual friends.  Would it be feasible, he suggests, for them to become Friends With Benefits?  After all, neither of them has potential partners beating down their doors.  And, as successful

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‘Cripple of Inishmaan’ is an able-bodied play

By Cynthia Citron CULVER CITY, California — If talk radio hosts didn’t exist, somebody would have to invent them.  Somebody already has.  It’s playwright Martin McDonagh, who brings us the character of JohnnyPateenMike, the town gossip in The Cripple of Inishmaan. JohnnyPateenMike  considers himself a “journalist” as he delivers the “news” door to door on

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