From left: Lucy Rodriguez (Mercy) and Sal Lopez (Serafina) in Latino Theater Company's "The Storyteller of East LA" (Photo by Grettel Cortes Photography) Latino Theater Company’s world premiere of “The Storyteller of East LA” offers the best kind of theatrical experience — an intimate, beautifully produced and directed story that will make you laugh even as it moves you to tears. The production is infused with the talents of Latino Theater Company members, many of whom are fo

From left: Jah Shams and Kimberly Bailey in "Colored People's Time: A History Play" at The Robey Theatre Company (Photo by Kermit Carlyle Photography) Leslie Lee’s “Colored People’s Time: A History Play,” directed by Ben Guillory at The Robey Theatre Company, is a powerful series of vignettes that moves through different eras of Black American history, roughly from the 1850s to the 1950s. The play touches on slavery, Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, racism in entertainment a

From left: Bre Melino and Leilani Nicol in "An Ode to Parenting" at Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre (Photo by Chance Lang) “An Ode to Parenting,” written and directed by Chance Lang and presented at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre, is a collection of five, two-person vignettes that explore parenting as an ongoing experience shaped by love, sacrifice and personal evolution. Each piece stands on its own while contributing to a larger examination of family, touching on themes