Playing at The Actors Company and presented by theater collective Artists at Play, the comedic and controversially titled play "Ching Chong Chinaman" deals with the Wongs, a Chinese American family completely assimilated into American culture "“ so much so that the members don't recognize their ignorant behavior directed toward their newly immigrated indentured servant, Jinqiang. Read more...

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Julia Cho, Scott Keiji Takeda, Steve Hu, Ken Narasaki and Helen Ota star in the comedic “Ching Chong Chinaman,” which deals with the idea of Chinese American identity and will run through Nov. 20.

A typical play rehearsal takes place indoors on a stage with decent lighting, but UCLA alumni Michael Perl and John Cogan have spent the last couple weeks running through graveyards, getting tangled in spiderwebs and slinking through underground vaults, all under the cloak of night. Read more...

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UCLA alumnus John Cogan, left, performs with co-star Michael Prichard in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Unnamable” at Mountain View Cemetery.

"Completeness," the L.A. Theatre Works new radio theater production, attempts to answer questions about love and relationships through the story of a romance between a molecular biologist and a computer scientist. Read more...

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Jason Ritter and Mandy Siegfried star in “Completeness,” a new radio theater production by L.A. Theatre Works at the James Bridges Theater.

In 1947, the opening show of Arthur Miller's play "All My Sons" featured a racially homogeneous cast. This year, a revision to that play has been made. The casting is multi-ethnic, and for a very specific reason. Read more...

Austin-based theater troupe Rude Mechanicals brings its over-the-top, yet extremely knowing, antics to the Kirk Douglas Theatre for a second time this year, with just such a musical, "I've Never Been So Happy." Read more...

Together, science and religion have endured a long, messy history. Read more...

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