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The Red SuitcaseReviewed by Deborah KlugmanP3 Theatre Company at The BroadwaterThrough September 3Playwright Jiggs Burgess’s The Red Suitcase takes place “somewhere along the banks of the Brazos River,” a waterway that runs some 840 miles through east Texas to the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico. Like the river, Burgess’s narrative covers a lot of […]
PipelineReviewed by Martín HernándezArt of Acting StudioThrough Aug. 19RECOMMENDED“The source of this fight is older than the bricks in this building,” intones one of playwright Dominique Morisseau’s characters in her knotty but compelling indictment of the “school to prison pipeline” that pits primarily Black male students against a racist and increasingly carceral education system. While […]
Les MisérablesReviewed by Socks WhitmoreHollywood Pantages TheatreThrough Sep 10, 2023More than 200 years have passed since the French Revolution swept the streets of 19th century France, but across the world you can still hear the people sing; Cameron Mackintosh’s fully-staged production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables has taken up residence at the Hollywood Pantages […]
Tevye In New York!Reviewed by Martín HernándezDugan’s Backyard PlayhouseThrough August 6RECOMMENDEDBetween 1895 and 1914, Sholem Aleichem, the pen name of author Solomon Rabinovich, wrote tales in Yiddish about Tevye, the devout Jewish dairyman, his family, and their travails in their small village in the Ukraine, then part of Imperial Russia. For those who only know […]
One Moment of FreedomReviewed by Julia StierTheatre 40 Through August 27When Bet (Catherine Bruhier) intercepts a punishment meant for her daughter, Lizzie (Kristal Dickerson), she is spurred to make a change in her life. For Bet and Lizzie are slaves, one of the few in the Northern state of Massachusetts. When Bet latches onto a […]
La Havana MadridReviewed by Dana MartinOutside SCR at Mission San Juan CapistranoThrough August 4thLa Havana Madrid, a long-forgotten social club that turned into a ’60s social movement, finds new life in Mission San Juan Capistrano’s courtyard. Writer/performer Sandra Delgado’s play of the same name articulates both the oppression and the triumphs of Latin American immigrants […]
A Bella IncarcerationReviewed by Julia Lloyd GeorgeEcho Theater CompanyThru August 22RECOMMENDEDFrom its very first moments, Ann Noble’s one-woman show, A Bella Incarceration, offers no easy answers. There is the actor/playwright in blue scrubs, a pink clown nose, and a blonde wig. Confined to a child’s playpen representing a prison, she doesn’t seem to have much […]
A Black and White CookieReviewed by F. Kathleen FoleySky Pilot Theatre Through August 20 You can almost hear the mechanisms clanking behind playwright Gary Morgenstein’s A Black and White Cookie, now being presented by SkyPilot Theater at Anthony Meindl’s Actor Workshop.Protagonist Harold (Tommy Franklin), a Black Vietnam vet who has run a New York newsstand for the […]
