By Ernest Kearney — "Blood at the Root" by Dominique Morisseau (onstage at the Atwater Village Theatre thru Oct. 28) is a slick, stylish, very smartly devised piece of writing.
By Ernest Kearney — Set in an upscale neighborhood of Philadelphia, Melissa Jane Osborne’s "Smile" (on stage at Atwater Village Theatre) begins with Rachel (Isabella Feliciana) seated in the office of high school counselor, Helen (Andria Kozica).
By Ernest Kearney — "Gloria," the Pulitzer Prize-finalist, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is best described as an E-Ticket ride to the infernal regions of hell. Oh yes, indeed, the trip the Echo Theater Company takes you on, starts out full of fun and snickers; but a
Erin Courtney’s 2012 Obie Award winning play, A Map of Virtue starts its Los Angeles run at Atwater Village Theatre. Directed by Barker Room Rep founder Mark Sitko, the play “explores coincidence, circumstance and the relationship between people and objects, and examines how the most
It was rather fitting that on the night of the first presidential debate I found myself sitting in the audience, lean as it was, for The Echo Theater Company’s staging of Mary Laws’ Blueberry Toast.
Like The China Syndrome—the 1979 Jane Fonda thriller about corruption and
Do not be fooled by the title, One of the Nice Ones. There is nothing “nice” about Erik Patterson’s play.
Point of fact, it is relentless in its anti-niceness.
Think your typical office politics row only with Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken taking turns holding a