Play review
‘Memnon’: Harlem comes to Malibu (ancient Black Lives Matter too)
September 12, 2024The approximately 80-minute one-act play can be a bit talky with lengthy monologues or soliloquies, although I imagine this may be how some Greek dramas were presented in those ancient amphitheaters under the starry Grecian skies...
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‘God Will Do the Rest’ introduces an idiosyncratic Filipino American immigrant family
September 11, 2024From his clever and wise writing in last year’s The Bottoming Process, I could tell Nicholas Pilapil would be one playwright to watch.
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English language world stage premiere of ‘Insulted. Belarus’: Agitprop in Santa Monica
December 12, 2023Could there be a economy where the collectivity of the people own the principal industries of the land yet where political and civic life is democratic in practice as well as in theory?
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‘Lines in the Dust’ dramatizes endemic race discrimination in public education
November 9, 2023Numerous milestones marked with the premiere production of this play.
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‘How It’s Gon’ Be’: A young Black artist starts figuring it out
September 29, 2023LOS ANGELES — “I wanted to capture the heart of a young artist trying to figure out where he fits in,” playwright JuCoby Johnson explains. “These characters each have a deep love for one another that...
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