. Plays are written, or used to be written, on paper, although today they start with letters more like shadows on a screen. They’re written by arranging alphabets that look something like the shadows of the shapes of letters. Some plays, though, have a pulse. They are very much not only acted, but alive on stage, flesh, blood and feeling. And some plays have a heart, a beating, burning heart. Their characters are full of passion, navigating elevated emotions. These plays, tr

A musical titled “Waitress” is going to evoke all sorts of expectations. It will tell the story of a working girl, under appreciated,...

Btanden Jacobs-Jenkins gives us a family that is high functioning and highly dysfunctional.

Frank Lloyd Wright once said to make a great building, you need a great client. He was probably right, or at least that seems to have...

There’s a moment in “The American Dream,” a play written by Juan Ramirez, when the coyote, or smuggler, played by Ramirez, tells the...

"Garside’s Career" is a beautifully written, witty, heartfelt, hopeful play about a man who rises in politics.

"When Gold Turns Black” is a fitting companion to that iconic photograph that blends just the right amount of personal and political.

When did Elvis become “Elvis?” It’s a question that, really, helps us understand who he was and who we are, who he became as well as his...

We get a heartfelt meditation on life, loss, death and, most important, love.