drama
“Awake and Sing!”: Classic proletarian theater, so timely
September 27, 2013Newcomers to the work of Clifford Odets, the Group Theatre's greatest dramatist, as well as longtime fans familiar with this avatar of proletarian theater, are in for a treat at North Hollywood's Lonny Chapman Theatre.
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Che Guevara of antiquity on stage in “Prometheus Bound”
September 10, 2013Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound is this southern California theater season's exceptional undertaking of transcendent artistry with insight into and about the human condition and spirit.
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“Red”: Abstract art’s odd couple makes great drama
August 29, 2013John Logan's multiple Tony Award-winning Red is a theatrical time machine that transports audiences back to those heady days when abstract expressionism was the vogue.
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Cop show reveals the U.S.-Mexico divide
July 30, 2013What makes "The Bridge" fascinating is not only its characters, but what is going on behind them.
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Today in labor history: The term robot is first used
June 25, 2013On the June 25, 1921 premier, Czech author Karel Capek's introduced the term robot in his science fiction play R.U.R. in which robots organize and rebel against poor working conditions and low pay.
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