HAITI at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum

Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze Romance! Swordplay! History! All this plus a play that probably none of us has ever seen before.Reportedly giving this play its first-ever revival since its premiere in 1938, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum presents “Haiti,” written by William DuBois (just to be clear, not W.E.B. Du Bois).Read more… Rob Stevens … Read more

IS THERE COMEDY IN DEATH? PLAYWRIGHT JOSÉ RIVERA ON THE DARK TWISTS OF ‘NIKKI CORONA’

Margaret Gray – LA Times Ask theater director Jo Bonney to describe playwright José Rivera’s new work — “The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona,” a world premiere that begins previews Tuesday at the Geffen Playhouse — and Bonney hesitates. Is it comedy? “Here’s the tricky thing,” Bonney says. “It’s about death, but that sounds so … Read more

MARIAN, OR THE TRUE TALE OF ROBIN HOOD at Theatre of NOTE

Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw Male actors have always had a lock on the role of Robin of Locksley, whether on stage or screen, but now the provocative Kirsten Vangsness crashes the hallowed fraternity and dons the green feathered cap in this “gender-bending, patriarchy-smashing, hilarious new take on the classic Robin Hood myth.”  The … Read more