THE WHIPPING MANA play by Matthew Lopez "...We as Americans have to take responsibility for our past, even if most of us in this country today are not decendents of slaveholders." -- playwrite, Matthew Lopez The Civil War has ended, leaving destruction in its wake. As a raging storm illuminates what’s Read more…
Policy at the Playhouse, recognizes that conversations about governance take place in many different fora and are voiced by many different communities. This fall we will once again lead a Tuesday talk back -- this time after a perfromance of Real Women Have Curves, a stage play by LA playwrite Josefina Lopez, set Read more…
Join the USC Bedrosian Center and the USC School of Social Work Office of Global and Community Initiatives for a viewing of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. This work of documentary theatre weaves a portrait of real individuals who experienced the violent aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King trial. "The piece explores the Read more…
Join the USC Bedrosian Center and the USC School of Dramatic Arts for a viewing of Facing Our Truth: Ten Minute Plays on Trayvon, Race and Privilege. In light of the George Zimmerman verdict, The New Black Fest commissioned six very playwrights to write 10-minute plays on the topic of Trayvon Martin, race and/or privilege. "Facing Read more…
Join the USC Bedrosian Center and the USC School of Dramatic Arts for a viewing of Rules of Seconds, presented by The Latino Theater Company at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. Set in 1855 Boston, where the slightest infraction between gentlemen is grounds for a challenge to be resolved with pistols, RULES OF SECONDS marks the inaugural Read more…
Join the USC Bedrosian Center and the USC School of Dramatic Arts for a viewing of The Originalist, presented by the Pasadena Playhouse. When a bright, liberal law school graduate embarks on a nerve-wracking clerkship with Justice Antonin Scalia, she discovers him to be both an infuriating sparring partner and an unexpected mentor. As the country Read more…