We speak with actress Susan Pourfar of Meet the Cartozians, currently playing at New York City’s Second Stage Theater until December 14.
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Raffi Barsoumian, of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow fame as Bishop, among other roles, steps into his Armenian heritage in playwright Talenene Monahon’s magnificent play, Meet the Cartozians, currently playing at New York City’s Second Stage Theater until December 14.
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In the 1925 Oregon District Court case, United States v. Cartozian, Tatos Cartozian and his family argued that they, and by extension all Armenians in America, should be considered “white,” driven by the purpose to gain citizenship, per the Founding Fathers’ conception of only white men being full citizens with rights.
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Pasadena Playhouse’s production of Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day, opened on September 10. The Tony Award-winning play follows a group of PTA parents at a private elementary school in Berkeley, CA, in the Fall of 2018, as they attempt to navigate a mumps outbreak at the school.
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CASA 0101 Theater opened its Fernandomania Ten-Minute Play Festival on August 29, 2025 as part of its 25th Anniversary season. The festival featured the world premiere of twelve 10-minute plays that honor the legacy of Fernando Valenzuela, the late and great Major League Baseball pitcher and former Los Angeles Dodger who passed in October of last year.
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On May 6, Myra Molloy will take over the lead role of Eurydice in the Tony-winning Hadestown. I had the chance to ask the actress about being the first Thai lead in a Broadway musical, how she prepares for a performance, what stood out to her about this story, and more. Keep reading for everything she shared!
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We’re back at it reviewing global majority-focused Los Angeles theatre for 2024 and I can safely say it’s off to a terrific start! The Rogue Machine Theatre kicks off their new season with the West Coast premiere of Middle of the World, written by Juan José Alfonso and directed by Guillermo Cienfuegos, and it is a riveting and rather timely play that crackles with energy, soul, and fire.
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“Why do I have to die so you can learn your lesson?” says Kim (Chacha Tahng), the ill-fated character from the Tony Award-winning musical Miss Saigon, in Preston Choi’s This is Not a True Story. She continues on her tirade with her fellow doomed counterparts, CioCio (Julia Cho) from the tragic Madame Butterfly, and Kumiko (Jo Yuan) from the 2014 film, Kumiko: The Treasure Hunter.
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Rehearsals have begun for Geffen Playhouse’s production of Every Brilliant Thing, written by Olivier Award–nominated playwright Duncan Macmillan (Lungs; People, Places, and Things) with Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, and Off-Broadway Alliance Award nominee Jonny Donahoe (Thirty Christmases, Forgiveness).
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