Lynell George

Down the Rabbit Hole with "Through the Looking Glass"

Just days after Christmas, if you happened to stroll past a nondescript, dark-curtained storefront—the one just beyond the costume shop and the tax preparer along West Whittier Boulevard—most likely, you wouldn’t have looked twice. You wouldn’t have known that something magical was at work; that while a play was being made, a bridge wa...

Down the Rabbit Hole with "Through the Looking Glass"

A Bridge to Boyle Heights

The walk across the First Street bridge from Boyle Heights into Downtown Los Angeles takes mere minutes, but for families juggling the many working parts of their busy lives, crossing that river may feel like crossing an ocean.

A Bridge to Boyle Heights

The Haunting: An Interview with 'Appropriate' Director Eric Ting

What happens when a death invites mourning much more than the loss of a loved one? But also the death of the very notion of who that person was and—consequently—who you are? Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play Appropriate, which plays at the Mark Taper Forum through November 1, 2015, explores the consequences of such loss, but it also creates a comp...

The Haunting: An Interview with 'Appropriate' Director Eric Ting

From "Freed-Man" to Free: The Distance of the Journey

This article was originally written by Lynell George for the program for the production of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone directed by Phylicia Rashad at the Mark Taper Forum in spring 2013. The below post is an excerpted version of the original article. Center Theatre Group's Los Angeles National Finalists of the August Wilson Monologue Compet...

Family Matters: A Conversation with Paul Oakley Stovall

Actor and playwright Paul Oakley Stovall found his voice early. By high school he was a published poet, an accomplished debater and self-assured actor. However, his drive to achieve, he admits, was set in motion by a looming, inner-tension: A secret.