There’s plenty to miss about live theater besides grand spectacle. With the compelling two-person romantic drama “This Bitter Earth,” TheaterWorks makes a great case for intimate, dialogue-heavy plays ...

“This Bitter Earth” is a Black Lives Matter love story, with an interracial gay couple experiencing friction when an activist dates an apolitical playwright. But the play’s premise has a twist: It’s ...

THIS BITTER EARTH features Sheldon Brown and Daniel Desmarais. This Bitter Earth reveals a deep love challenged by divisive political realities. Jesse, an introspective black playwright, finds his ...

In the most powerful moment in “Bitter Earth,” a new two-character play by Harrison David Rivers, we see a young white man berating his African-American lover for what he sees as shameful political ...

2 JJ Niemann to Star in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN at Marriott Theatre 3 Photos: JJ Niemann and More in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Rehearsals at Marriott Theatre In this poetic romance, deep love is challenged by ...

A tragic love story touching class, race and sexuality serves as an introspective tale for the politically active at Evanston’s Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre. In “This Bitter Earth,” playwright Jesse ...

Early in “This Bitter Earth,” the sound of a glass bottle shattering interrupts a silly, drunken, late-night walk home. It’s not that ominous at first, but as lovers Jesse (H. Adam Harris) and Neil ...

“This Bitter Earth” is a timely political debate, evoking the death of Trayvon Martin and other tragedies that brought countless people out into the streets for protests and demonstrations a decade ...

This Bitter Earth; How Lovely to Be a Woman; You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught; Getting to Know You; The Man I Love; You’re the Dangerous Type; Trust in Me; He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss); As ...

Borrowing music from Broadway (Oliver!, South Pacific, Bye Bye Birdie), alt-rock (The Dresden Dolls' "Sing!"), the great American Songbook, ("Getting To Know You"), R&B, and beyond, it takes an artist ...