Joel Beers

Questions — more than 400, according to the program — are what Rajiv Joseph’s Mr. Wolf is all about. The play, receiving its world premiere at South Coast Repertory, begins with a teenage girl asking a question while circling a large rug with an enormous map of the universe behind her......

Don't be turned off by the source material, a Medieval romance that has inspired everything from a Wagnerian opera to a film starring James Franco. Love in all its passion and pain is at the center of the British-based Kneehigh Theatre's production of Tristan and Yseult, currently at South Coast Repertory on......

There isn't a great deal of new ground staked in Matthew Lopez' 2006 play The Whipping Man. The Civil War was America's worst nightmare, slavery its greatest evil, and no one — free, enslaved, North or South — emerged unscarred. The only fresh territory is that the three men in......

Geo-political and religious implications abound in Theresa Rebeck’s world premiere play Zealot. An American diplomat is locked in a fierce battle with a British diplomat over the fate of a Muslim woman accused of committing heresy during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia. But while issues of faith, convoluted history, and diplomatic maneuvering......

Playwright Samuel Hunter writes about the overlooked, everyday common people in the margins of society, where most of us live. His ability to make his characters' struggles resonate as much as those of kings and drug addicts makes his voice unusual indeed. Questions of impending death loom large over his......

There isn't a great deal of new ground trod in Zoe Kazan's world premiere play Trudy and Max in Love at South Coast Rep. Relationships are difficult. Love is complicated. People attempting to find their place in the world are ill-equipped to do so with another person seeking the same. But that...