Laura Maria Censabella's play focuses on the difficulties of young women whose career aspirations are thwarted by cultural expectations.
Set in a Detroit automobile outfitting plant, Dominique Morisseau's drama grabs you from the start with its focus on blue-collar men and women, and their struggle...
One of the play's weaknesses is the surfeit of soap-operatic family exchanges that spill into melodramatic shouting matches.
Although not all of ICE's comedy clicks, Martell’s story has both weight and charm. The production’s overriding plus is its successful rendering, fashioned with humor and...
A new staging of Nancy Keystone's award-winning political play comes to the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.
Yusuf Toropov’s drama, set in a contaminated, cancer-ridden community, involves a publisher and his brother -- a priest struggling against the local archdiocese.
Playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes pays special homage to the folk music, food and familial culture of the Puerto Rican community, but her story winds through a...
The second drama in playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes’ trilogy juxtaposes one soldier’s post-war tribulations with stories generated by a group of recovering drug addicts.
Born in Poland and brought up in New Jersey by an immigrant mom who cleaned houses for a living, playwright Martyna Majok has fashioned her experience...
In Sam Steiner's futuristic play, a new law limits conversation between people to 140 words a day. How will they get around this ration?
Playwright Michael John Garcés’ labyrinthine plot follows two sisters through a myriad of fantastical scenarios involving a mega-corporation that aims to control worldwide food production.
Structured as a radio play, Pang! is made up of three stories of struggle and survival distilled from real-life accounts of impoverished families, including one from...
Christopher Chen's play is partly inspired by the real-life controversy surrounding playwright/performer Mike Daisey’s 2011 solo piece, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.
This illuminating stage work about Dick Gregory, the late iconic comedian and civil rights activist, receives a powerhouse performance from Joe Morton as the stand-up comic.
A new drama speaks not only to issues of criminal justice, but to the inner turmoil many of us wrestle with every day.
Ball culture, the subject of the 1991 documentary Paris Is Burning, is the backdrop for Filipino-American playwright Boni B. Alvarez’s new play, Fixed
Runaway Home should pack more of a punch than it does. The production has rich and satisfying sequences, most of them generated from the supporting ensemble....
Playwright Stephanie Alison Walker was among the thousands of homeowners to receive a foreclosure notice in 2008. The experience prompted her to write American Home, a...
Dolores, a documentary mix of archival footage and interviews with Dolores Huerta, her family and such prominent figures as Gloria Steinem, Angela Davis and Luis Valdez,...
Crown Heights isn’t the tidiest film but that untidiness (so very much like real life) is a lot of its strength.