From left: Ben Beatty (Hally) and John Kani (Sam) in "'Master Harold'...and the Boys" at Geffen Playhouse (Photo by Jeff Lorch) South African playwright Athol Fugard’s “’Master Harold’…and the Boys” was first staged in 1982, before apartheid ended in 1990, but set in 1950, two years after that racially segregationist policy was implemented. The play features two Black South African men and the younger white “Master Harold” (or Hally) who is buddies with them — to a point. The

From left: Crystal Yvonne Jackson (Scilla) and Monty Renfrow (Renton) in "Twisted" at Theatre West (Photo by Garry M. Kluger) Chris DiGiovanni’s new play “Twisted,” directed by Marc Antonio Pritchett at Theatre West, is a contemporary drama set in the suburbs of Philadelphia that centers on Scilla Claroe (Crystal Yvonne Jackson), a struggling writer preparing to document the story of Renton Downey (Monty Renfrow), a man on death row for a mass shooting. As Scilla interviews R

From left: Pierre Adeli (Mr. Zero) and Mariana Jacuzzi (Ms. Devore) in "The Adding Machine" at The Actors' Gang (Photo by Bob Turton Photography) How do you enslave yourself? What soulless thing do you regularly do because you believe you have to, even though it detracts from your sense of life’s beauty and joy? Despite its calculating title, those are the questions behind “The Adding Machine,” boldly staged by The Actors’ Gang through this weekend. Creatively directed by Cih