Zachary Pincus-Roth

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' play Neighbors sparked a national controversy for featuring a family called the Crows, who wear blackface and embody the stereotypes of a minstrel show. Despite the intriguing premise, the Matrix Theatre's 2010 production here felt provocative for the sake of it. (The playwright, 30, has acknowledged that the......

Comedy writer Jason Shapiro started the Twitter feed @LosFelizDaycare in 2013, and you would have thought it would be old hat at this point, but there is no shortage of fodder for satirizing young, educated, progressive, Angeleno parents. The feed spoofs not only their child-rearing styles but also their other......

Based on an audience suggestion, the Improvised Shakespeare Company performs an entirely new, made-up-on-the-spot play in the style of Shakespeare. Yes, much of it does rhyme, and yes, it's hilarious, and while there are contemporary references thrown in, it's not just a spoof — the group takes the form seriously,......

After opening a New York theater in 1999, an L.A. branch in 2005 and a second New York venue in 2011, the Upright Citizens Brigade — led by original foursome Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh — took a huge step forward in November 2014 when it......

People who want to find experimental theater in L.A. should of course read L.A. Weekly's theater reviews — but they also should sign up for No Proscenium, an email list for immersive and site-specific productions. Curator Noah Nelson dredges up shows that make you wonder whether they actually exist: A......

I don’t mind messing with Shakespeare. I’ll take Kiss Me, Kate over Taming of the Shrew, and the under-appreciated 1971 Broadway musical version of Two Gentlemen of Verona over the original. So I was particularly disappointed that the Geffen Playhouse’s These Paper Bullets, a “mod-ish ripoff” of Much Ado About......