Review: City Garage opens a window to life behind the Iron Curtain in ‘Largo Desolato’

Just ask professor Leopold Nettles, the all-too-flawed dissident writer in Václav Havel’s “Largo Desolato.” An eerie, atmospheric staging at City Garage in Santa Monica revisits Havel’s absurdist 1986 portrait of Iron Curtain paranoia. Before becoming Czechoslovakia’s first president following the collapse of Soviet-era communism ...