Today, on I review plays on my lunch break in two minutes and mostly in All Caps:

PORGY AND BESS AT CENTER THEATRE GROUP.

(OPERA, TECHNICALLY.)

WHY ARE YOU NOT THERE RIGHT NOW.

Beautiful, weird, guttural, nightmare-y, honest, sometimes silly, sad, AUDRA MCDONALD, handsome cripple, harmony that melts and shakes you,  songs that truly emerge from feeling, premiered some 80 years ago:

Somehow better than 99.9% of the things we try and make today, and so worth the necessary Ahmanson parking at earthquake fault line level to see.

Charles Bekahwood OUT!