Jenny Lower

The basis for the much beloved, happily-ever-after musical My Fair Lady, George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion takes a much firmer tack on questions of class distinctions and female independence. Those themes, so dear to Shaw’s progressive heart, end up rather charmingly watered down in the 1964 Audrey Hepburn film......

The Game Against Bobby Fischer, a new play written by Dennis Richard and directed by Gregory Fuller at the Secret Rose Theatre, purports to enter the troubled mind of renowned American World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer (Robert Weiner) as he approaches his final days in his adopted home of Reykjavik,......

Washer/Dryer, Nandita Shenoy’s world premiere at East West Players, drops young, cross-cultural love into the cutthroat world of a New York City co-op. Reasonably well-acted and seasoned with some light high jinks, the show hovers at sitcom-level contrivances and shallow character development, rarely rising above its exhausted stereotypes. The story......

Shakespeare gets a contemporary, democratic, and highly customized makeover in California: The Tempest, a migrating world premiere from Cornerstone Theater Company, directed by artistic director Michael John Garcés. This touring production celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the community-based theater troupe’s Institute Summer Residency program, a month-long training academy in developing......

Before the sun dawns on There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, written by Mickle Myers and directed by Ruth Silveira at Sacred Fools, the glorious stuff of clickbait headlines has already taken place. The evening before, two professors at a tiny liberal arts college, both specialists in William Blake......

Before the opening performance of La Víspera (The Eve) at 24th Street Theatre, a young man named Edgar translates the pre-show welcome into Spanish for the bilingual audience. When he stumbles over the Spanish word for “rehearsal,” a voice from the back — belonging to Jesús Castaños-Chima, the show’s director......