Articles by Zachary Pincus-Roth

THE LEGEND in playwright Jennifer Maisel’s family is that every year during the Passover Seder, her grandfather used to grab the traditional horseradish root off the table and take a bite. Read more

BLYTHE MATSUI holds her arm straight out, hand flat, palm up, while rotating her body. Read more

IN a tent, on the sidewalk, under the fluorescent lights of a Washington Mutual bank building in Long Beach, six people sit huddled around a space heater discussing the Eliot Spitzer scandal on a recent Saturday night. Read more

Thirteen years ago, when Octavio Solis was writing “La Posada Mágica,” a Christmas play for South Coast Repertory, he decided to call the main character “Gracie.” Read more

Above the discarded potato chip bags, Styrofoam cups, orange rinds and scores of people who line San Julian Street between 5th and 6th streets on a Saturday afternoon, Lorinda Hawkins and Henriette Brouwers are sword-fighting with vacuum cleaners. Read more

WINTER Miller was near the Chad-Sudan border conducting research on the Darfur conflict last year when a Darfuri man took her to the spot where the janjaweed had bayoneted his son. Read more

THOUGH he’s no stranger to the spotlight, Kevin Spacey bristles when news reports on the Olivier Awards focus on his film connections: ” ‘The Hollywood contingent was represented by Kevin Spacey.’ Read more