The Rose Bowl Queens
This easygoing tuner by Barbara Hart and Cheryl Gimbel (collaborators on book, music, and lyrics) is set in a rural Texas bowling alley, the Rose Bowl, where beer-swillin', two-steppin', and romancin' take precedence over knocking down pins. More »

Liberty Inn: The Musical
The spirit of Molière farce is alive and well in Dakin Matthews and B. T. Ryback's saucy musical adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's French play "La Locandiera" ("The Landlady"). More »

The Diviners
"The Diviners" is a lyrical fable set in bucolic America, a fascinating yarn that bristles with complex psychological undercurrents and a hint of Greek tragedy. More »

Haram Iran
Paul Deratany's play deals with the ill-fated real-life friendship of two 15-year-old boys: Ayaz Marhouni (Tamer Aziz) and Mahmoud Asgari (Narendra "Andy" Gala). More »

In a Garden
Playwright Howard Korder's gift for layered and nuanced dialogue is never better than in this offering. More »

LA Review: 'Men of Tortuga'
Jason Wells' Steppenwolf-bred dark comedy, now in its West Coast premiere, initially feels like an enigmatic Samuel Beckett play, updated to offer sardonic commentary on greed and amorality in the corporate jungle. More »

Don Juan Dispenso
Actor-writer-director Tony Tanner has an offbeat, intriguing take on the Don Juan story that lurches among the humorous, tragic, and occasionally bewildering. More »

The Unexpected Man
French playwright Yasmina Reza often relies on gimmicks to unleash revelations. She takes mundane, prosaic situations and probes beneath the surface to reveal lurking passionate, life-and-death feelings. More »

Dolores and North of Providence
With Carly Simon's wistful pop ballads in the background and a glimpse into the a low-rent Rhode Island apartment, the stage is set for an evening of Edward Allan Baker's early one-acts. More »

Dual Citizens
What works in a solo performance and what doesn't? Check out these two. One is unique, memorable, abstract enough to provoke thought, and concrete enough to allow us to relate. The other isn't. More »

The Price
In the Arthur Miller canon, this play tends to be considered in the middle: a notch below his early masterpieces but above his later, mostly overlooked plays. More »

Wit
Essentially strong ensemble casting makes this a play that nourishes and stays in the heart and mind. More »

Slaughter City
Only a playwright as talented as Naomi Wallace could craft a work set in a slaughterhouse that is this lyrical and creative. More »

Pool (No Water)
It’s more than a coincidence that Dave Barton’s staging of this 2006 black comedy, which concerns the aftermath of a famed artist’s horrible accident, comes off like a piece of performance art. More »

The Story of My Life
Neil Bartram and Brian Hill's 2009 chamber musical is a poignant two-hander exploring the joys and disappointments of a long-term friendship. More »

Forgiveness
Forgiveness ain't easy, for the characters in David Schulner's play or for his audiences. More »

Oedipus El Rey
This could have been the way the Greeks saw Sophocles' play on its opening night. Told in their language and lingo, costumed in outfits of the day, the original would have resonated loudly and clearly. More »

Barbra's Wedding
Daniel Stern focuses his comedy on Jerry and Molly Schiff, Barbra Streisans’s fictional next-door neighbors and the only noncelebrities in their neighborhood. More »

Cave Quest
Justin, a bouncy computer-game designer, is looking for the main chance: a video game that will make his fortune, ensure his place in the game business, and bring internal peace to millions for the total price of $49.99. More »

Backwards in High Heels
This enchanting new bio-musical about film star Ginger Rogers (1911–95), conceived by Lynnette Barkley and Christopher McGovern, is like a time-capsule trip to movie musicals of the 1930s and ’40s. More »

Dreamgirls
Director-choreographer Robert Longbottom's touring revival is a knockout, cast to perfection and blessed with a stellar visual style and musical splendor. More »

The Collector
It's a pretty irresistible, black-and-white formula: two characters brought together, one of them unwilling, one of them off their rocker. More »

Broads!
The Wonderettes' zesty performances go a long way toward parlaying this string of familiar old-age jokes into palatable cream-puff entertainment. More »

The Ballad of Emmett Till
In the hands of playwright Ifa Bayeza and actor Lorenz Arnell, young Emmett emerges as good-humored, brash, sassy, irrepressible, and funny. More »

A Prayer For My Daughter
The works of the late Thomas Babe, who died in 2000, remain ripe for sharply divided opinions based on individual philosophies about theater. More »