Joel Daavid News Today

LOS ANGELES — J. Alphonse Nicholson is one amazing actor not to be missed. In a 90-minute one-act show that more than satisfies as a full evening of theater, he inhabits five different Black characters as a sort of African-American Everyman, ranging from a minstrel in the early 1910s to a wise, bu...

LOS ANGELES — So many fortuitous elements have come together in the Open Fist Theatre Company production of Dominique Morisseau’s Blood at the Root.

Lobby Theatre will debut for the first time in Los Angeles with a staged reading of Aleshea Harris’s Obie Award-winning play, ‘IS GOD IS,’ starring Merle Dandridge, Jayme Lawson, Regina Taylor, and Dominique Thorne.

"The Lifespan of a Fact," which starred Daniel Radcliffe on Broadway, opens at L.A.'s Fountain Theatre with new actors sparring in an epic journalistic battle.

LOS ANGELES — I read a manual on memoir writing where the author made the point that for the sake of a coherent story it really doesn’t matter to anyone, least of all to the reader, whether the sofa on which, 40 years ago, you experienced your first kiss at your neighbors’ house was gray or gr...