Colored People’s Time
This play is not about being late, it’s a play about being on time. At a time when stories about African Americans are being censored or erased in this country, […]
Photo by Grettel Cortes Photography.
Come to Celebrate Family Ties in The Storyteller of East L.A.
Evelina Fernandez is already an acclaimed playwright, but with The Storyteller of East LA, she is transcendent as she plumbs life, death, and the in-between as experienced in a family. On the day […]
Bales, Nagle. Photo by Eric Pargac.
The Perfect Play for our 250th asks: What Price Freedom?
With all the sturm und drang thrown at us by this administration, it’s easy to be cynical about celebrating the 250thanniversary of the Declaration of Independence. And if that’s the case for you, […]
Goodrich, Tshetshe, Moore. Photo by Thomas Alleman.
Amerika by Frans Kafka-An Early Immigrant’s Journey
Amidst the furor about immigration in the 21st century, it’s hard to realize that, as a country, we’ve already experienced the tumult caused by an influx of migrants with predictably similar […]
Ball, Linder, Grober. Photo by Gabriel Tejeda-Benitez.
An Agatha Christie Whodunit That Will Keep You Guessing
I think there will never be anyone who plots more inventively than Agatha Christie did. And I have long considered Theatre Forty to be the perfect theatre company to bring […]
Cummings. Photo by Brian Hashimoto.
You’ll Fall in Love with Sylvia in Octopus Garden at Boston Court in Pasadena
I came to this play fully expecting it to be a sing-along of Beatle’s songs. You remember “Octopus’s Garden,” don’t you? Instead, I was surprised to find that the play, written […]