KCRW's Opening the Curtain

Based on a historical event, playwright Kemp Powers imagines what Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown might have chatted about behind closed doors.

Nancy Keystone's Critical Mass Performance Group take on Euripedes. It's up at the Theatre @ Boston Court, thanks to the Getty, a funder with a vision.

In a spare rehearsal room, six actors, three black, three white are trying to create a show, or presentation, about an African genocide from the last century.

City Garage's "Opheliamachine" explores the themes of feminity, power, sex, rage, love, and madness through a faceted portrayal of Ophelia.

Contemporary architecture fills the galleries at MOCA's Geffen Contemporary. If you're craving a survey of theater, the Hollywood Fringe Festival runs June.

The genius of Neva, written and directed by Chilean Guillermo Calderón, is it captures not only Chekhov's gift for theater but also what's happening outside the theater.

The mysterious death of an American soldier in Iraq lays the groundwork for Christopher Shinn's intimate, character-driven piece at Rogue Machine Theatre.

"Joe Turner's Come and Gone" at the Taper not only does honor to Mr. Wilson's words and legacy, but gives us a hint at how his plays are going to age and grow.

If you're a fan of the formally daring and witty, you need to see Theatre Movement Bazaar's riff on Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

Neil LaBute's adaptation of August Strindberg "Miss Julie" is going to be a tough ticket to get in the Geffen's small space. So, like they say on TV, 'act now.'

There's something about "Annapurna," Sharr White's play starring Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman at the Odyssey Theater, that's satisfying like comfort food.

Two brothers. Foreign born. They are angry. Maybe at the government. Maybe not. Sounds disturbingly like Boston, right?

Actor Brian Finney's performance in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness at the Actors' Gang shouldn't be missed.

In theater/journalism, size matters!

"The Nether," Los Angeles playwright Jennifer Haley's world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theater, is seductive. It's a play about complicated ideas.