In Southern California, not everyone has to confront racism in the same way as manifested in the South during the late 60s and early 70s. Back then, Toni Morrison wrote about […]
Bringing the Skylight’s series featuring women playwrights and directors to a close, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s Hungry Ghost may be the most densely packed, metaphorical drama presented this year. Dring tells the tale […]
Almost everyone knows about Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, that exposes the pursuit of an American Dream with tragic consequences. But fewer people know how much Miller was intrigued by […]
What a metaphor for life! Bernardo Cubria simmers it down to a shucking bucket of crabs, all struggling to get up and out, no matter at whose (or whats’) expense. Sound […]
What an ingenious move, to reposition Shakespeare’s History Plays to feature a woman who might seem to simply sit on the sidelines while the men do all the jockeying for […]
With Stew, a new play at the Pasadena Playhouse, playwright Zora Howard draws on now-familiar tropes (introduced by August Wilson) to reveal mysteries concealed in a middle-class family in upstate, New […]
Prepare to be engaged and surprised all along the way at The Pitch, a play by Tom Alper who also has the starring role. Alper plays a sad-sack sort of a character, a […]
If you’re reading this now, you’ve missed the run of this ground-breaking play at the Skylight Theatre. I, too, almost missed it: only through a stroke of luck did I catch it […]
Palmares is a wonder of sight and sound with a history lesson thrown in. Above all, as produced by the Brazil Brazil Cultural Center at LA’s Fringe Festival, the almost mythological […]
One of the features of Los Angeles’ sprawling Fringe Festival is finding important plays tucked among the sea of one-person shows. Eduardo Vega’s Octopus in its Own Ink is such a find. To […]
