Mindy Farabee

Wally Rudolph's debut novel, Four Corners, tells the bleak story of Frank Bruce, an addict entering middle age and nearing the end of the road. Roped into a kidnapping scheme concocted by his meth-head best friend, Frank finds himself desperately trying to outrun both a thuggish casino boss and his......

Playwright Donald Margulies' The Country House takes its mother-son rift, its themes of art and ego and unrequited love and even its bucolic setting from the Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, but what The Country House most has in common with its source material is an ability to scrupulously map all......

Hit, the aggressively funny farce by lauded playwright Alice Tuan, careens through issues of cultural diversity, global capitalism, social responsibilities and extended adolescence in Los Angeles, with an unforgiving aim and an insistence on shunning easy answers. It begins with Kim (Kahyun Kim), an Angeleno of partly Korean ethnicity, as......

"We're right now in the middle of an interesting riddle," David Dean Bottrell, the actor-producer behind Sci-Fest, the city's inaugural festival of science fiction one-acts, says just two weeks before his brainchild's May 6 premiere at Hollywood's Acme Theater. "We're working out how to make our actors float in space."......

A breakneck lineup of 12 short sketches by playwright, composer and Saved by the Bell creator Sam Bobrick, L.A. Deli centers around a day in the life of its titular eatery, an industry hangout where six actors take turns portraying a retinue of Hollywood types, presided over by Kathleen (Gail......

Four Larks, the Australian-American theater company that has been producing "junkyard operas" mainly in Melbourne and San Francisco since 2008, made their Los Angeles debut this past week with a beautifully melancholy Orpheus, a one act suffused with love and mourning, the tenuousness of life and the capriciousness of where......

Nicely funny and not a whole lot more - such is the well-staged world premiere comedy A Nice Indian Boy. Keshav (Christian Durso) and Naveen (Andy Gala), two single Bay Area men, meet cute at a Hindu temple. Cut to six happy months later, when Naveen finally, nervously agrees to......