Brenda Wong

Set in England after WWI, the dialogue and attention to details in this period drama give this play an air of gentle subtlety. The story revolves around the Bureau of Recollected Lives, an agency dedicated to tracking down the memory of missing loved ones. The story opens as Evelyn hires Sidney, who has returned from the war, to be her secretary. Even as the agency does not initially draw clients, Sidney has questions of his own about his missing father. There is a sweet chemistry between the two... full review

We love Fringe for the creative, fun, eccentric, and surreal theater experiences of letting artists pursue their passions and achieve their visions. Nothing could be more representative of this than playing with dolls in a shop full of colorful wigs. Maddie is fun and energetic as she leads the audience through this interactive show in which audience members play the characters in court represented by the dolls--the accused, the accuser, the defense attorney. It's pure silly fun that will ... full review

Roz Browne takes you along on her journey, from her childhood in Boston, to her trip to Africa. She portrays all of the characters in her story so perfectly that by the end of the show, you feel like you really know her family and the travel group.... full review

Nilsa recounts having a series of strokes at a young age, with honesty, pain, and sometimes humor. Aside from the physical trials of the strokes, the tests, the treatments, and the rehabilitation, she talks about what this means for her dating life, her relationship, and family planning future. ... full review

Many complex subjects are covered in this tale of love blossoming between a young man and a young woman who meet after being committed to the same psychiatric ward, from family dynamics and genetic predispositions, to the side effects of medications. Beneath all of it is a deep love and concern for each other, hopes for a future together, and a fear of what they know about their own and their families' pasts threatening to hurt that love.... full review

You are the water. You are the trees. You are the fish and the birds and the insects and animals of the Alaskan wilderness. This is not just some Zen wisdom, although I suppose it could be. This is Mark Vigeant's "Out There," an interactive show that has the entire audience playing all these parts as Mark plays Larry, an engineer contemplating whether he might be having a midlife crisis as he sets out on a solo trip in Alaska. Of course, in these times, a solo adventure is meaningless unle... full review

A cosmic fun musical with positive vibes. It manages to be very lighthearted, despite its existential undertones. The simple plot is premise for the concert: getting hit by a meteorite and surviving has given Mrs. Hughes a purpose in life, and that is to bring her space rock to audiences.... full review

Taking place on a train in Berlin, this play focuses on a conversation between two women, a trans German woman named Marlene and Barbara, a conservative American woman. What begins as light small talk initiated by Marlene takes a heavy turn when Barbara makes her negative views on trans women known. What ensues is the important conversations we need to be having now, lest Germany’s dark history be repeated.... full review

A funny story of one young woman’s journey from California’s Central Valley to the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, in search of losing her virginity. This story is replete with the hilarious misconceptions and misunderstandings and crushed expectations born simultaneously of horniness and naivete.... full review

Fun premise: the lights are reversed, so that anything the audience is watching, is the action that happens in the dark. The action opens with a burglar stumbling around in the dark, then the couple with marital difficulties enters and the fun begins. A fourth person adds to the mayhem as we watch people bump into each other, touch each other, and talk to each other, unaware of the presence of all who are in the house. ... full review