Radio GolfReviewed by Julyza CommodoreA Noise WithinThru November 13 RECOMMENDEDWhat’s the price of progress? August Wilson’s 2005 Radio Golf asks this question, as the final installment of his Century Cycle, representing cultural changes in Pittsburgh during the 1990s. With Harmond Wilks (Christian Telesmar) campaigning to become Mayor and having his own personal aspirations, he is […]

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Eisenhower: This Piece of GroundReviewed by Iris MannNew LA Repertory at the Hudson TheatreThrough Jan. 22RECOMMENDEDTony Award winner John Rubinstein virtually becomes Dwight D. Eisenhower in this tour de force solo performance of Richard Hellesen’s play, Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground. The 34th President of the United States, Eisenhower is also known for having been […]

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To Kill a Mockingbird Reviewed by Deborah KlugmanThe Pantages TheatreThrough Nov. 27RECOMMENDED  Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960, while the movie — based on Harper’s novel and starring Gregory Peck as a white lawyer defending a black man accused of rape — came out in 1962. Both the book and the film […]

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WET: A DACAmented JourneyReviewed by Martίn HernándezThe Greenway Court TheatreThrough November 13RECOMMENDEDDeferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, is the Orwellian term for the Obama-era policy that, under certain conditions, currently shields over 600,000 undocumented persons from deportation. Brought to the U.S. as children and now mostly adults, some did not even know their history […]

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 House of Spirits: The Tale of Vaughan HallReviewed by Socks WhitmoreMeyer2Meyer at Casa VertigoThrough October 31RECOMMENDED A skeletal creature made of branches chitters at you from the corner. A veiled woman with empty eye sockets walks the halls with her arms outstretched. A humanoid owl solemnly hands you a burning torch and gestures for you to […]

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The Inheritance Part 1 and Part 2Reviewed by Dana MartinGeffen PlayhouseThrough November 27RECOMMENDEDMatthew López’s sprawling saga, The Inheritance Part 1 and Part 2, is an artistically refined and emotionally raw examination of modern gay life in the aftermath of the AIDS epidemic. The Geffen’s season opener has seismic power that won’t be soon forgotten.A languishing […]

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(Un)DocumentsReviewed by Joseph KlinkLatino Theater Company – The Los Angeles Theatre CenterThrough November 20th RECOMMENDED  There is a responsibility in understanding the value of our freedom; yet, why are we still allowing systems that fail immigrants to decide the cost of theirs? Every day, I hear stories filled with heartbreak and resilience that do not […]

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Mother Sisters Reviewed by Taylor KassThe Echo Theatre CompanyThrough October 27RECOMMENDEDYou never forget your firsts. Playwright Makaela Vogel has curated her unique family story into a “docu-play” featuring the oral histories of each of her eight aunts who grew up in a Catholic family in New Mexico. It’s a simple, straightforward series of direct-address monologues with […]

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Inconceivable Reviewed by Julyza CommodoreHudson Guild Theatre Thru Dec. 12 RECOMMENDEDInconceivable, a “totally true one-woman semi-fertile quasi-musical” show offers a candid look into the struggle to conceive that one in five women can relate to.  (According to studies, 20 percent of women of child-bearing age are unable to become pregnant.) The show is written and performed […]

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The MousetrapReviewed by Julia Lloyd GeorgeGroup Repertory Thru November 13RECOMMENDEDAgatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, the longest running play in the world, is a tremendously successful whodunnit for a reason—perhaps you can crack the case? A story of seven strangers stranded by a blizzard in a hotel and informed by a detective that a murderer hellbent on […]

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