From left: Jah Shams and Kimberly Bailey in "Colored People's Time: A History Play" at The Robey Theatre Company (Photo by Kermit Carlyle Photography) Leslie Lee’s “Colored People’s Time: A History Play,” directed by Ben Guillory at The Robey Theatre Company, is a powerful series of vignettes that moves through different eras of Black American history, roughly from the 1850s to the 1950s. The play touches on slavery, Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, racism in entertainment a

From left: Lucy Rodriguez (Mercy) and Sal Lopez (Serafina) in Latino Theater Company's "The Storyteller of East LA" (Photo by Grettel Cortes Photography) Latino Theater Company’s world premiere of “The Storyteller of East LA” offers the best kind of theatrical experience — an intimate, beautifully produced and directed story that will make you laugh even as it moves you to tears. The production is infused with the talents of Latino Theater Company members, many of whom are fo

From left: James T. Lawson II (David Baldwin), Julio Hanson (James Baldwin), Raquel Rosser (Maya Angelou) and Nick Gillie (Miles Davis)...