From left: Russell Edge, Trieu Tran, Iris Liu and Jorge-Luis Pallo in “Ascent” at Skylight Theatre (Photo by Randy Wong-Westbrooke) Recently, many Americans (and people around the world) were captivated by the Artemis II mission, which was the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. We watched videos of the astronauts in their space capsule floating in zero gravity, marveling at a solar eclipse and views of our home planet, before finally splashing

From left: Ahkei Togun, Fana Minea Tesfagiorgis, Rama Orleans-Lindsay and Luis Kelly-Duarte in “Red Harlem” at Company of Angels (Photo by Rafael Cardenas) I t’s 1932, and in the midst of Hoover’s bid for reelection during the early years of the Great Depression, a member of Stalin’s Communist Party turns up in Harlem, New York, joins forces with the first Black candidate to run on a presidential ticket, and recruits a group of Black actors and performers to sail to the USSR

From left: Amber Tiara (Maureen) and Rosie Byrne (Deena) in Open Fist Theatre Company's "Brownstone" at Atwater Village Theatre (Photo by Erin Clendenin) Catherine Butterfield's "Brownstone," having its Los Angeles premiere by Open Fist Theatre Company in the Atwater Village Theatre, is an exploration of city living in three distinct stories set in the 1930s, 1970s and early days of the new millennium. Set in a classic New York brownstone, each story follows a young couple na

Though billed as a comedy, the Odyssey Theatre’s “Stalin’s Master Class” by David Pownall is more like a lively character portrait of...

Amanda Warren gives a tour-de-force performance as Camae, a hotel maid who brings coffee to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on his final...