Marsha Norman’s musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel “The Color Purple,” with music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, is being thoughtfully staged by Chromolume at the Zephyr Theatre through March 29. Veronica Driscoll (Celie) and Minque Taylor (Shug Avery) in Chromolume's "The Color Purple" at Zephyr Theatre (Photo by James Esposito) Set in the rural American South in the early 1900s, the story follows Celie (Veronica Driscoll), a dark-skinn

From left: Gildart Jackson, Will Block and Adam Poole in "The Shark is Broken" at Laguna Playhouse (Photo by Jason Niedle) If you are even remotely a fan of the 1975 blockbuster movie “Jaws,” you will thoroughly enjoy the play “The Shark is Broken” at Laguna Playhouse, written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon about the off-screen dialogue among the movie’s three main actors — Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw. Ian Shaw based the play on stories his father Robert shar

Scene from "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" at Theatre 68 Arts Complex (Photo by Joe Falsetta) Stephen Adly Guirgis’ “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot,” directed by Leif Gantvoort at Theatre 68 Arts Complex’s Emerson Theatre, is a dark comedy set in Purgatory inside a courtroom where Judas Iscariot’s fate is reconsidered. Through a legal appeal, witnesses and historical figures are called to testify about Judas’s life, his betrayal of Jesus and whether or not he deserves forg