
Families react to tragedy in "August: Osage County" and "Nebraska"
By now, we should be convinced that Meryl Streep can do anything, but we've never seen her do ugly like this!

"The Lion in Winter" delivers royal drama with rip-roaring wit
John Rafter Lee and Diane Hurley deliver bravura turns as the title character and his imprisoned, estranged wife Eleanor.

"Awake and Sing!": Classic proletarian theater, so timely
Newcomers to the work of Clifford Odets, the Group Theatre's greatest dramatist, as well as longtime fans familiar with this avatar of proletarian theater, are in for a treat at North Hollywood's Lonny Chapman Theatre.

Che Guevara of antiquity on stage in "Prometheus Bound"
Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound is this southern California theater season's exceptional undertaking of transcendent artistry with insight into and about the human condition and spirit.

"Red": Abstract art's odd couple makes great drama
John Logan's multiple Tony Award-winning Red is a theatrical time machine that transports audiences back to those heady days when abstract expressionism was the vogue.

Cop show reveals the U.S.-Mexico divide
What makes "The Bridge" fascinating is not only its characters, but what is going on behind them.

