Directed by The Actors’ Gang director Chas Harvey and written by Harvey, Megan Stogner, Willa Fossum and Cihan Sahin, “Arrest the Clowns: Insolent Until Proven Guilty” promises to be “an action-packed nail-biter about a revolutionary freedom squad of buffoons who will stop at nothing to take down the elusive artificial intelligence LOLA and save the world.”   However, experiencing the play is more of a mixed bag of vaguely revolutionary rhetoric, profanity and the stale scent

Manuel Oliver in “GUAC” at Woolly Mammoth Theatre (Photo by Cameron Whitman) “When you lose a son, what do you do?”   This urgent and gut-wrenching question rang in the ears of writer Manuel Oliver from the moment his son Joaquin (nicknamed “Guac”) was murdered in a 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. It’s also the opening line of Manuel’s solo performance dedicated to Joaquin, which, layer by layer, begins to provide the answer.   Fro

Brian Henson (right) in "Puppet Up! – Uncensored" at Kirk Douglas Theatre (Photo courtesy the artist and Center Theatre Group) First,...

From top: Chad Doreck (Joe Biden), T.J. Wilkins (Barack Obama) and Jenna Pastuszek (Hillary Clinton) in "44" at the Kirk Douglas Theatre...