THE MADRES
Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
Playwright Stephanie Alison Walker pays tribute to the women who would not be silenced when their sons and daughters started disappearing by the thousands during the “dirty war” waged by the Argentine military dictatorship on its own citizens beginning in the mid-1970s in The Madres, another powerhouse Skylight Theatre World Premiere.
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A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
Monday, March 26th, 2018
Actors Co-op brings 16th-century English history to vibrant life with their 21st-century revival of the 1962 Best Play Tony winner A Man For All Seasons, Robert Bolt’s thought-provoking if overlong look at Sir Thomas More, torn between moral conscience and political expediency during Henry VIII’s reign as King.
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AN UNDIVIDED HEART
Sunday, March 18th, 2018
Pedophile Catholic priests and toxic waste-dumping chemical plants form the backdrop of Yusuf Toropov’s An Undivided Heart, a Circle X. Theatre Co./Echo Theater Company World Premiere that despite occasional tonal inconsistency and lack of clarity proves a powerful indictment of church-and-corporation-sanctioned abuse.
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A RAISIN IN THE SUN
Monday, March 5th, 2018
A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry’s piercing look at racial discrimination, gender roles, family values, and burgeoning African-American identity in the pre-Civil Rights Era 1950s gets revived to powerful effect at Pasadena’s A Noise Within.
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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Sunday, March 4th, 2018
Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire undergoes a radical reinvention at The Theatre @ Boston Court where director Michael Michetti has transposed the seven-decade-old classic to 21st-century New Orleans to stunning effect.
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THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAYS LAST
Friday, February 23rd, 2018
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes concludes her deservedly acclaimed “Elliot Trilogy” with The Happiest Song Plays Last, its powerful Latino Theater Company California Premiere made momentous by the fact that Parts 1 at 2 are both currently playing in L.A.*
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THE CHOSEN
Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
Friendship has rarely felt so good or hurt so bad, nor have father-son relationships caused more joy or pain than they do in Chaim Potok’s exquisite coming-of-age novel The Chosen, adapted for the stage by Aaron Posner and Potok and now making an absolutely superb Fountain Theatre debut.
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ELLIOT, A SOLDIER’S FUGUE
Sunday, February 4th, 2018
Three generations of Marines serving in three different wars have their stories told in four distinct voices in Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, the first in Quiara Alegría Hudes’s acclaimed “Elliot Trilogy” now making a lyrically told, gorgeously staged, superbly acted Kirk Douglas Theatre debut.
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