Eric Reyes Loo Serves Heartbreak, Tortas, & Revelation in 90 Minutes by Isa S. Chu In the world premiere of “Simple Mexican Pleasures,” playwright Eric Reyes Loo serves up a vibrant, heartfelt, and funny journey of self-discovery—wrapped in masa, dipped in memory, and garnished with just the right dash of magic. Directed with spark…
Streaming: May 6 – 17, 2025 Ngozi Anyanwu Energizes Paired Monologues with Music, Dance by Zack Rogow Theater and movies about love stories almost always show us the lead-up to a romance. It’s rare that we hear about the mechanics of an actual relationship, and even less frequent that a plot focuses on the…
Barrett & Stevens Turn Renaissance Rome into Punk-Rock London by Rachel Norby Amazingly, “It’s True, It’s True, It’s True” takes its dialogue from a 1612 rape trial in Renaissance Rome. Apart from torture by thumbscrews, the young woman’s accusation that she has been raped could be a dramatization of a trial for rape in…
Ayodele Nzinga Transforms Realism to Fantasy, Opening Our Eyes by Kheven Lee LaGrone According to Marvin X, a leading playwright of the movement, “Black theater was the mother of the Black Power Movement.” He explained that, “In America during the 60s, youth received revolutionary consciousness in the Black Arts Movement (BAM), especially the Black…