Notes From a Celebration: Pacific Playwrights Festival Turns 20
South Coast’s rep for developing new work makes another strong showing.
Stories by Brad Rothbart
Carlos Murillo’s Unreliable, Revelatory ‘Javier Plays’
More than a mere play collection, the author’s new anthology is a meta-meditation on identity, memory, and meaning.
Karen Malpede Imagines a Better World in ‘The Beekeeper’s Daughter’
Known for plays that call out social injustice, the ecofeminist writer returns to an earlier, more hopeful work—but she hasn’t lost her sting.
Two New Books Explore Life After Performance
Volumes by Judith Malina and Daniel Sacks wrestle with revolutionary truths—one via poetry, the other through theory.
Like Father, an Unlikely Son: Baba Israel Pays Tribute to a Living Legacy
With Yako 440, Israel’s new show at the BRIC, accompanied by a retrospective exhibit, both mourns and celebrates his jazzbo dad, steven ben israel.
Once More Unto the Breach
An Anatomized Philippic Regarding the Relationship of Disability to the Contemporary American Theatre
