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Much of the 20-day shoot took place in Rancho Palos Verdes at a property that once belonged to Fuller’s grandmother; the remaining Southern California locations were obtained gratis through favors called in. Among the challenges they dealt with were climbing down to Thousand Steps Beach in Laguna with their equipment for the “worst day of shooting,” having to “hold for peacock” during shots because the birds that roamed the RPV property had exquisite timing, and a silk lighting screen that nearly fell onto Sofranko during a windstorm. BY MAYANK KESHAVIAH

Perhaps the medium is both the problem and the solution when it comes to making Shakespeare relevant. Could this show, which feels a bit like "Glee" but with fewer misfits and more cutthroat competition, introduce Shakespeare to the latest crop of web-savvy not-so-literati? Could a desire to get the in-jokes motivate media-hungry youngsters to put down their phones and learn to navigate iambic pentameter with the same adroitness as their Facebook privacy settings? BY JENNY LOWER

L.A. playwright Alice Tuan's "Hit" is currently playing at Los Angeles Theatre Center. Through her life and career, Tuan has been trying to reconcile what it means to be of Chinese ancestry in America. "Hit" is one expression of that attempt, a play, like its L.A. setting, with many centers. BY LOVELL ESTELL III

In his new column about theater beyond theater walls, TERRY MORGAN looks at Acorn.tv's "Theatreland," an eight-part series about the Royal Theatre Haymarket, and its productions of "Waiting for Godot" (with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen) and "Breakfast at Tiffany's"