This week in history: 400 years since death of Shakespeare
What immortal characters, prescient visions, fantastic worlds, and all-comprehending humanity did this writer pluck from his imagination!
“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.
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.
Bringing Eleanor Roosevelt’s lover Lorena Hickok out of the shadows
The play's frank assertion that Hick and Eleanor were lovers represents a departure from earlier dramatizations of their relationship.
New L.A. play says: Beware the catch in every dream
The new play "Dream Catcher" provides an uninterrupted 80 minutes of high drama between two passionate characters.
“Candide”: The best of all possible shows?
It's at all times innovative, witty and charming, full of puppetry, pageantry, imaginative stagecraft and Voltaire's waggish sensibility.
Bullets and broken hearts over Broadway
So, a Marxist walks into a theater to watch a fluffy new musical set in the 1930s - and leaves with a big wide smile across his face.
“Scott and Hem”: An imagined second act of the crack up
Mark St. Germain's "Scott and Hem" imagines a 1937 F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meetup in Hollywood.
Today in history: Centennial of playwright Arthur Miller
October 17 is the 100th birthdate of American author and playwright Arthur Miller.
“Hit the Wall”: Revolution starts with a hot night out
We the audience are immersed right in the epicenter of the Stonewall Rebellion that broke out the night of June 28, 1969.
