The week after Thanksgiving, the Polish playwright Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk will be in town for two public readings of her plays (directed by two mainstays of the Los Angeles theater scene): Pantofelnik’s Suitcase, directed by Katharine Noon (Ghost Road Company) at the Atwater Village Theatre, on Nov. 29, and The Mayor, directed by Jon Lawrence [...]

With playwright/actress Rochelle Duffy’s debut effort, “Prison Is Where I Learned to Fly” at the Pasadena Playhouse, the audience inadvertently gets two plays for the price of one. The “main play” seems to be the letter writing/readings of prisoner Patrick to Rochelle, the only one of his 16 siblings who will have any communication with [...]

In “Who’s Your Daddy?” at the Little Victory Theatre in Burbank, Johnny O’Callaghan performs his self-written piece documenting his real-life nine-month ordeal in adopting his son Odin from Uganda.
A good storyteller with effective use of his voice, basic gestures and body language, and a very expressive face, O’Callaghan has the audience in the palms of [...]

Daisy Foote’s gripping “Bhutan,” now in its West Coast premiere at LA’s Rogue Machine Theatre, is a time-bending tragedy that chronicles the disintegration of a small New Hampshire town. Focusing on one hard-luck farm family, Foote expertly weaves the personal with the socio-political, delivering a grim, last-gasp portrait of rural America.
The Conroy clan appears plucky [...]

Magno Rubio is small; both the man and the play titled “The Romance of Magno Rubio.” As the cast yells out in unison at the start of the show, “Magno Rubio, four feet six inches tall. Magno Rubio, dark as a coconut ball/With a head small/And limbs like a turtle.” The belittling words set the [...]

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre puts the play in the Bard’s plays with endless rambunctious energy and side-splitting physical humor — so much so, that you’ll feel as if no one could have more fun onstage with William Shakespeare’s comedies than this London-based troupe that performs at home in an authentic reproduction of the Bard’s 1599 playhouse. [...]

It may come as a surprise to some people, but Boise, Idaho, is a blossoming arts community. That’s where Trey McIntyre Project is based, and as dancer Brett Perry says, “It’s a really cool city, and we’re thrilled to be a part of it. It’s a community where we can get out and make a [...]

Finally, a musical you can bring your parents to! “Bring It On: The Musical” began its national tour at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre on Nov. 11. With a mixture of “Clueless” and “All About Eve,” a sprinkle of “Rent,” and a dash of “Flashdance” trickery, “BIO” dazzles, thrills, entertains multiple generations, and deals with [...]

Veteran scene-stealers Nelson Mashita and Jeanne Sakata command the stage for every scene they’re in for the Los Angeles premiere of Julia Cho’s “The Language Archive” currently at East West Players.
The story centers on George, a linguist who masters quite a number of languages, except the one language vital to keep his wife Mary from [...]

Marco Barricelli gives a tour-de-force performance as a bitter, pathetic self-loather in “Vigil,” basically a one-man show with able mimed assist from Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis. The American Conservatory Theater production is currently onstage at Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum.
Morris Panych directs his script about a man who comes to the deathbed of [...]