Beth Kander is a USA Today best-selling novelist and longtime dramatist. Described as a “genre-defying author and playwright” (Oxford American), her writing style blends warmth, wit, and solid punches to the gut. Her work often explores identity, transitional moments in life or society, and how worlds old and new connect—or collide. CATF: How were...
NEWS & REVIEWS: Purlie Victorious Directed by Psalmayene 24
Tickets available through the Studio Theatre here. Review by Peter Rosenstein for The Georgetown Dish May 11 Purlie Victorious premiered in1961, and wove together the aspirations of Purlie, an African American preacher, within the deeply entrenched racism of 1950s southern Georgia. It was written by the multitalented Ossie Davis, who first starred in it as...
NEWS: Reading of THE AMERICA PLAY, Directed by Ifa Bayeza
The Brick and the New Theater Hollywood are pleased to present a staged reading of The America Play by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Ifa Bayeza and coinciding with MONUMENTS, an exhibition co-organized by The Brick and The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Centering on the Foundling Father, a Black Abraham Lincoln impersonator who...
NEWS & REVIEWS: HOW MY GRANDPARENTS FELL IN LOVE, A MUSICAL by Playwright Cary Gitter and Composer Neil Berg
In 1933, Charlie, a Polish-born Jew who emigrated to America a decade earlier, returns to his hometown of Rovno in search of a bride. There Charlie meets Chava, who works at a hat shop and hopes to become a scholar. However, Chava’s ambitions for the future and the growing clouds of European anti-Semitism and...
NEWS & REVIEWS: YOUNG JOHN LEWIS: PRODIGY OF PROTEST with Book & Lyrics by Psalmayene 24 and Choreographed by Tony Thomas, Comes to Mosaic Theatre Company
Young John Lewis: Prodigy of ProtestBook & Lyrics by Psalmayene 24Music by KOKAYIDirected by Reginald L. DouglasChoreographed and Associate Directed by Tony Thomas March 26-May 3, 2026Tickets available at Mosaic Theatre Company It’s time to make some Good Trouble! In this musical, Mosaic’s Playwright-in-Residence Psalmayene 24 honors the legendary “Conscience of Congress”: the late...