plays
Futuristic world premiere play ‘Disposable Necessities’ mixes up race, gender, sexuality
December 19, 2019Rogue Machine scores again with Disposable, which is in line with the venerable company’s pursuit of new, quirky, envelope-pushing productions.
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World premiere play with music ‘Salvage’ launches in Los Angeles
November 21, 2019Though couched in a language with vaguely religious overtones, the message of Salvage applies to all of us trying to make a difference in the world.
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‘Fifteen Men in a Smoke-Filled Room’: How Warren G. Harding became president
November 20, 2019The biggest White House corruption scandal ever recorded up to that point in history took place during the early years of Warren G. Harding’s administration.
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Two new Black-themed plays in L.A.: A history and a comedy
November 15, 2019What are the odds, at any given moment of theatre history in this city, of having two plays running simultaneously, both set during World War II with young Black men trying to enlist in the armed...
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Race and grace in Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’
October 25, 2019The 2015 Pulitzer Prize committee called Between Riverside and Crazy “a nuanced, beautifully written play about a retired police officer faced with eviction that uses dark comedy to confront questions of life and death.”
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