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The Trial of the Catonsville NineIn today’s political/military climate this emotionally gripping trial of nine fearless and dedicated individuals is a powerful reminder of the follies of national hubris and the need for ordinary citizens facing a profound wrong to take action when their government acts against their best interests. This production brings to life the conflict between conscience and law, truth and politics at the play’s, and society’s, heart. |
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Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift’s biting political/ social satire makes for a bawdy, comedic, and irreverent romp. It’s an adult tale that has long been hijacked for kids. This is the grown-up version – an acidic attack on pride, hypocrisy, ingratitude, cruelty, war, lawyers, money, imperialism, and politics
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The Women of LockerbieIn this intensely powerful drama, the mother of a Pan Am 103 victim confronts the women of the village as they fight for permission to wash the clothes recovered from the wreckage and return them to the surviving loved ones.
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The Exonerated“To speak of life-or-death stakes in The Exonerated is, for once, no exaggeration. Created and directed by New York-based Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen from interviews they conducted with former death row inmates whose wrongful convictions were eventually overturned, a riveting Actors’ Gang staging examines capital punishment and the justice system in chilling terms.” –Los Angeles Times 2003 |
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The Guys“At Actors’ Gang, where The Guys began an open-ended, rotating celebrity run Thursday, it falls to Helen Hunt and Tim Robbins to hold an audience captive for 90 wrenching – yet strangely soothing – minutes.” –Los Angeles Daily News 2001
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Embedded“As a piece of theater, Embedded is as snarlingly eloquent as a garage-rock guitar solo. as a rowdy and engaging polemic… Uncompromising… fueled by the author’s outraged intelligence and a boisterous cast of 13, it stays in motion for a briskly amusing, intermittently disturbing 1 1⁄2 hours… Savagely witty and incisive… it cannily blends in actual reportage by the likes of BBC reporter John Simpson and Alan Feuer of the New York Times to convey the agonized business of trying to ascertain truth in the most trying circumstances. War is hell, we tell ourselves, yet time and again humanity finds new ways to strut down that fiery path. With Embedded, Robbins gives practically everyone hell for joining in the parade.” –Los Angeles Times 2004 |
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The Mysteries“Few things are more exciting in the theater than pure creativity, and so it proves in The Mysteries at the Actors’ Gang. Director-adapter Brian Kulick’s exploration of medieval mystery plays (and their antecedents) is wildly inventive, with one bemusing drawback.” –Los Angeles Times 2003
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