"Francisco's Fire" runs November 10-December 16 at Santa Monica's Dorie Theatre at The Complex.

L.A.-based playwright/director Keith Watabayashi has adapted Georg Buchner's "Woyzeck," hailed as the first German literary work with a working class protagonist. Buchner, then declared a traitor by the ruling class, fled imprisonment before dying of typhus at 23. He is today one of Germany's most revered literary figures. Watabayashi has adapted Buchner's tale to contemporary Los Angeles, with Latinos at its focus. Its story of shameful exploitation of the working class, economic and even sexual, and its warning of potentially explosive repercussions to come in the absence of change, seems as timely today as when Watabayashi's predecessor imagined his narrative nearly two centuries ago. "Francisco's Fire" runs November 10-December 16 at Santa Monica's Dorie Theatre at The Complex
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Scenes from David Henry Hwang's YELLOW FACE

YELLOW FACE has performances through Sunday, January 13th in Martinson Hall at the Public Theater. The performance schedule is Tuesdays at 7 PM; Wednesdays thru Fridays at 8 PM; Saturdays at 2 PM and 8 PM; and Sundays at 3 PM and 7 PM.

The Public Theater is located at 425 Lafayette Street. Tickets are $50 with student tickets available in advance, at the box office only, for $25 (1 per ID). There are a limited number of Rush Tickets sold an hour before curtain at every performance available to the general public (Two per person, $20 each, cash only).

Order tix online at publictheater.org. Use code YFPSO1 for discounted $37.50 tix.