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 […]
