There’s a young playwright in town whose name you would do well to remember. It is Dionna Michelle Daniel. She has written a theatre piece called American Saga: Gunshot Medley Part 1 that can be argued with, but not dismissed. Its American premiere is currently on stage at Rogue Machine’s MET Theatre — also announced …
There is a tendency for every generation to feel that it is living through something no other generation has ever lived through, especially the bad parts, when that “something” is painful, difficult and even illegal, and most especially when it involves a failure of morality. But the truth is that those pesky moral failures punctuate …
It really doesn’t matter that we don’t know exactly when playwright and human rights activist Lorraine Hansberry wrote her play Les Blancs. We know that it was the last play that she wrote before she died at 34, leaving behind several almost finished drafts of Les Blancs that her ex-husband (and executor), Robert Nemiroff, finished based …
Yeah, I know. For reasons beyond my control, I waited much too long to see the Los Angeles premiere of Honky at Rogue Machine Theatre, but boy, talk about a proper satire for our times! “Our times.” What are they? Pathetic caricatures of what they once were. They are not just about “change” any more, but …
Yes, of course. The title is meant to intrigue, but the problem with the world premiere of Jonathan Caren’s queasy little up-to-date thriller, Need to Know, at Rogue Machine, is that is that it keeps us reaching for that elusive answer without quite giving us enough of one. The build-up is there. Lily (Corryn Cummins) …
Rogue Machine Theatre’s ‘The New Electric Ballroom’
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