A Slight Ache is a play written by the late Nobel prize-winning British playwright Harold Pinter. It was originally penned in 1958 and premiered as a radio play in 1959, prior to its initial stage production. […]
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 […]
Kudos to playwright Marion Zola for bringing us the story of Bet, a brave and quite intelligent slave in the late 18th century, who sued for her freedom … and won. […]
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 […]
