Various jungle animals scheme to get their hands—er, paws and claws—on some delicious fruit in the spritely, kid-friendly play Before the People Came.

During the first half of Lisa B. Thompson’s well-acted Single Black Female, two women search an apartment for signs of the play’s title subject like detectives trying to solve a mystery.

It takes a larger-than-life character to fill a stage by himself.

Akin Babatunde and Nate Jacobs pull it off smashingly.

The play Reunion in Bartersville may deal with the ugly subject of murder, but the only real emotional danger to be had is laughing too hard.