Evie Abat

Theatre West WEST FEST Running Now Through September

Theatre West announced WestFest 2024, featuring four weekends of new and experimental works.

Theatre West to Host WE'RE NOT YOUR CUP OF TEA in May

Join Theatre West for WE'RE NOT YOUR CUP OF TEA, a celebration of AAPI stories and talent on May 11, 2024. Produced by Pamela Najera and presented by AADAP, Inc. Tickets available for $40.

Skylight Theatre Company to Stream AMERICA ADJACENT This Week

During this week's Skylight Live time slot on Thursday, August 20th at 3pm (PDT), the company will stream the archival video of AMERICAN ADJACENT by Boni B. Alvarez.

BWW Review: NEVER IS NOW at Skylight Theatre

The Skylight Theatre Company continues to provoke and encourage conversation and education. Their latest offering, opening September 21st, is a strong continuation of that tradition.

BWW Interview: Evie Abat of NEVER IS NOW at Skylight Theatre

The Skylight Theatre Company continues to provoke and encourage conversation and education. Their latest offering, opening September 21st, is a strong continuation of that tradition.

Review: AMERICA ADJACENT Asks How Far Would You Go to Give Your Child a Better Future

Discussions proliferate about immigration reform, whether it be the building of a wall to protect our border or deporting those who enter our country illegally to milk the system for everything they can get for free thanks to American taxpayer dollars. But while our focus seems to be on our Southern border, what about all of the other people from around the world that manage to come here illegally seeking a better life for themselves or, more importantly, their children? Is there really one correct answer or solution to the problem? Boni B. Alvarez, a Los Angeles-based writer-actor, addresses the question head-on in his world premiere play AMERICA ADJACENT.

BWW Review: AMERICA ADJACENT and MAMMA MIA at Skylight Theatre Company and Agoura High School

I had the pleasure of attending two performances from two opposite ends of the professionalism spectrum. One being a student directed, high school musical (well produced and performed, by the way) and the other a dramady produced by a well-respected theatre company chock-full of industry professionals both onstage and on the artistic side. But what they both had in common was that both of them experienced technical issues and the differences in how each handled said technical issues.

AMERICA ADJACENT Opens Feb. 16th At Skylight Theatre

Skylight Theatre Company Presents the World Premiere of "AMERICA ADJACENT" by Boni B. Alvarez Opening February 16, 2019    

BWW Review: THE LARAMIE PROJECT at Elite Theatre Company

The 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, is dissected in this riveting anatomy of a hate crime, and how it affected the residents of that small town. Elite Theatre Company's production is well-acted and directed by Morgan Keough for Lit Live Theatre.

Sacred Fools presents WE THE PEOPLE Nov. 20

Sacred Fools Theater Company is presenting the next installment of its ongoing staged reading series We The People on Monday, November 20 at 8:00 pm. All proceeds will go to CARECEN, the Central American Resource Center.

Photo Flash: BLOODLETTING Returns in January to Atwater Village Theater Following Sold-out Run

Playwrights' Arena's world premiere Ovation Recommended production of BLOODLETTING by Boni B. Alvarez, which sold out its initial five week run in November, returns to the Atwater Village Theater in January for only 4 weeks starting January 7th to January 29th.

The Joy Luck Club Opens in San Bernardino 10/21-23

Four young Chinese-American women and their mothers explore their past -- and their present -- in Amy Tan's best-selling novel 'The Joy Luck Club,' on stage Oct. 21-23 at the California Theatre of the Performing Arts, 562 W. Fourth St.