From left: Mathias Brinda, Xol Gonzalez, and Khalif J. Gillett in “Level Up!” (Photo by Jenny Graham) From the moment you walk into the Latino Theater Company to see “Level Up!,” you feel like you’re in The Matrix . Credit for that goes to scenic designer François-Pierre Couture, lighting designer Xinyuan Li, sound designer Robert J. Revell and especially projections designer Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh. It’s not often that the creative team behind a play is mentioned first in a theatr

From left: Sean Yves Lessard (Jamie) and Cat Rojo (Cathy) in "The Last Five Years" at Hudson Backstage Theatre (Photo by Sydney Belabin) Tony Award-winner Jason Robert Brown’s 2001 “The Last Five Years,” directed by Aaron Byrnes at the Hudson Backstage Theatre, is an intimate two-person musical that explores a relationship at its breaking point. The story unfolds through two timelines told simultaneously. Jamie Wellerstein (Sean Yves Lessard), a novelist, moves forward from t

Featuring two one-act plays by Harold Pinter: "Party Time" and "The Lover" Paul Marius (Terry), seated, and Michelle Ghatan (Dusty) in "Party Time," part of "Sex, Lies and Harold Pinter" at Odyssey Theatre (Photo by Jacques Lorch) The Odyssey Theatre is hosting a unique visiting production that presents two one-act Harold Pinter plays in one show dubbed “Sex, Lies and Harold Pinter.” “Party Time” (1991), a timely political satire, followed by the humorously twisted “The Lover