“Turn Me Loose”: Dick Gregory brought to life on NYC stage
Provocative and at times hilarious, the new one-man show captures Gregory's way of afflicting the comfortable.
“Gruesome Playground Injuries”: Wounds, blood, and scars on theatrical display
This two-person tour de force is playing through June 26 at the Hudson Backstage in Los Angeles.
Chicago Home Theatre reclaims domestic space for art
The Chicago festival encompasses the IHTF mission, but like giardiniera adds its own distinct flavor by "addressing specific issues facing its home city."
Stunning theatre about super-exploited restaurant workers
Molina keeps the rapid-fire, crackerjack dialogue calibrated to his split-second timing, recreating the hustle of a busy restaurant that diners never imagine.
A “Threepenny” production to take on the road
Pepperdine University's Theatre Department has just presented a short four-performance run of the classic.
“Six Characters in Search of An Author”: Performing Pirandello’s pirouettes
Sicilian playwright Luigi Pirandello's iconoclastic play is all the more impressive when one takes into account that its premiere in Rome was way back in 1921.
"A Singular They”: Intersex drama explores teenage angst
Most coming of age stories don't also involve deciding what gender you want to be. That's the dilemma facing the lead character in this play.
Open letter to Motion Picture Academy, L.A. Women’s Theater Festival
"Dear Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, you have come under intense criticism for Cloroxing this year's Oscars..."
New opera “Fallujah”: Heartbreaking look at war and PTSD online now
It is the first opera written about the Iraq War, and it is highly worthwhile.
New play confronts Alaskan Native and Caucasian worlds
In this play, an angry teenager from a troubled home in Juneau is sent to live and work with his Tlingit grandparents in a remote fishing village.
