From left: Crystal Yvonne Jackson (Scilla) and Monty Renfrow (Renton) in "Twisted" at Theatre West (Photo by Garry M. Kluger) Chris DiGiovanni’s new play “Twisted,” directed by Marc Antonio Pritchett at Theatre West, is a contemporary drama set in the suburbs of Philadelphia that centers on Scilla Claroe (Crystal Yvonne Jackson), a struggling writer preparing to document the story of Renton Downey (Monty Renfrow), a man on death row for a mass shooting. As Scilla interviews Renton, she begins...

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 the beginning of...

From left: Amy Melendrez (Rosalí), Blanca Araceli (Carmen García) and Laura Vega (Pancha) in "Real Women Have Curves" at Casa 0101 Theater (Photo by Steve Moyer Public Relations) Josefina López’s "Real Women Have Curves," directed by Corky Dominguez at Casa 0101 Theater, drops us into a small East Los Angeles sewing factory in the late 1980s. The story follows five Latina women racing to meet an almost impossible deadline while quietly navigating a constant fear of immigration enforcement. It...