Sara Porkalob in "Dragon Mama" at Geffen Playhouse (Photo by Jeff Lorch) Sara Porkalob has returned to the Geffen Playhouse with “Dragon Mama,” the second installment of her Dragon Cycle trilogy, written and performed solo by Porkalob. While the first play, “Dragon Lady,” told the story of her grandmother, “Dragon Mama” focuses on her mother's journey from a young queer woman searching for love and belonging to a young mother seeking the freedom to forge a new life for hersel

From left: Bo Foxworth (Joe) and Matthew Grondin (Chris) in Antaeus Theatre Company's "All My Sons" (Photo by Craig Schwartz) Arthur Miller wrote his Tony Award-winning play “All My Sons” in the immediate aftermath of World War II. No doubt it carried that resonance when it premiered on Broadway in January 1947. Through excellent staging and acting, Antaeus Theatre Company’s current production of this gripping play carries some of that same resonance — its weighty themes ring

Marsha Norman’s musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel “The Color Purple,” with music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, is being thoughtfully staged by Chromolume at the Zephyr Theatre through March 29. Veronica Driscoll (Celie) and Minque Taylor (Shug Avery) in Chromolume's "The Color Purple" at Zephyr Theatre (Photo by James Esposito) Set in the rural American South in the early 1900s, the story follows Celie (Veronica Driscoll), a dark-skinn