Liliana Padilla's Award-Winning Play HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF Explodes Onto Stray Cat Stage with Raw Power and Fierce Urgency The Yale Drama Series Prize-winning drama that critics call "a game-changer" ...

When you’ve been attacked, you’re already at a huge disadvantage. Anything you say in response can be dismissed as mere defensive retaliation. When you’re not trusted, it does you little good to say, ...

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you muster the courage to voice your feelings, only to end up feeling guilty and invalidated? It’s a scenario many of us have experienced. You try to ...

An interrogation is not a harmonious exchange between two individuals. It’s a conflict. And in this conflict, our ignorance is our strength. Ignorance of the meaning of police work, ignorance of the ...

Liliana Padilla’s funny, jagged, and sometimes deliberately incoherent HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF, now playing at Tempe Center for the Arts until February 28, throws us into a world where young people, ...