The promise of turning over a new leaf and forming a different identity is frequently an appealing one, but sometimes it can be a necessity for survival. At least, that’s how it seems to Arlie, who has just been released from prison, and plans to get through life as her better, more respectable half, Arlene. Of course, all of this is easier said than done in Getting Out, a challenging work being produced by the…

The play may be called Kid-Simple, but the premise is anything but: a young prodigy invents a machine that hears things humans never could discern, and when it is stolen, takes a mythical quest with a boy virgin for company in order to get it back. Did we mention the whole thing’s done in the style of an old fashioned radio play – only live, so we can see the action behind the scenes? Forum…

If Hitler had been a gangster, what color tie would he have worn? To some, that inquisitive trajectory is irrelevant and even downright disrespectful. Hitler was not only obsessed by power and violence, but a monster to whom, most would say, we should never extend the benefit of a psycho-history. To Bertolt Brecht, however, the value of an inquiry into Hitler the gangster outweighed the dangers. Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (pictured), now…

As you sit in the tiny performance space inside the Casa del Pueblo Methodist Church – which the Rorschach Theatre Company always manages to make look like an entirely new space from its previous production – you’re hot. The sweat’s dripping down your face. You’re trying to avoid any bodily contact with those sitting next to you. You’re starting to feel a little faint. Impressively enough, Rorschach’s lack of air conditioning only serves to place…