WET: A DACAmented Journey – Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA at Atwater Village Theatre

Neal Weaver  – Stage Raw We have all heard horrendous tales of the hardships and uncertainties facing the undocumented struggling to cope with our fractured immigration system, but that knowledge is pretty abstract compared to the grueling realities of being there. Actor/writer/poet Alex Alpharaoh has been there, for thirty-odd maddening and painful years, and he shares the … Read more

MUTUAL PHILANTHROPY – Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA at Atwater Village Theatre

Lovell Estell III – Stage Raw The Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA follows on the huge success of Watching O.J. with another play that surveys the social, economic and ethnic chasms that invariably unite and divide us. Read more… Deborah Klugman – Capital & Main One of the wryest moments in Karen Rizzo’s insightful, 75-minute one-act comes when Lee (Mark … Read more

Year of the Rabbit, Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA

Year of the Rabbit by Keliher Walsh. Sharon Perlmutter – TalkinBroadway.com I don’t think I’d ever actually considered the possibility that our soldiers fighting in the Middle East might be the children of our soldiers who fought in Vietnam. Keliher Walsh’s world premiere play, Year of the Rabbit, takes that idea and runs with it. Read more… Pauline Adamek – LA … Read more