Opening the Curtain

With Pocatello, Rogue Machine Theater returns to Samuel D. Hunter's small town, Idaho, this time with the closing of an olive garden. But the play's less about the closing of a chain restaurant and more about the loss of a way of life.

Based on an Internet meme of the same name, Sheila Callaghan's Women Laughing Alone with Salad attempts satire but ends up wading through the greens.

Stefanie Zadravec's Colony Collapse is a beautiful small play that's trying a little too hard to be a big play.

If you write a play that's mostly homophobic but end it with a gay marriage, do you get a pass? That's the question that I’m left with after seeing Bathsheba Doran's new play at the Taper, The Mystery of Love and Sex.

Remember the day of the OJ verdict? That's the dramatic engine in David McMillan's new play, Watching OJ, and its tapping into our current racial moment while staying safely in the past.

How are America and Poland connected since the Revolutionary War? That's both the promise and the challenge of Nancy Keystone's epic Ameryka.

WEB BONUS: The Wooster Group's production of Harold Pinter's first play The Room is playing at REDCAT this weekend and unfortunately that will likely be the only chance to see it -- anywhere. The reasons are fuzzy but someone is saying that this piece of theater can't exist . . . or doesn't have the rights to exist.

There are a ton of shows opening in Los Angeles this weekend. That's great, but you can't go see all of them – and neither can the critics. Here's why that matters to the health of LA's theater audience

Nothing happens in Will Eno's play, Thom Pain (based on nothing). But that doesn't stop Rainn Wilson from giving a stunning performance.

Britain's Headlong Theatre Company turns George Orwell's dystopian novel into a stunning theatrical production. But it might move your mind more than your heart.