Theater

“Trying”: Based on her experiences working for former U.S. Atty. Gen. Francis Biddle during the final year of his life in 1968, Joanna McClelland Glass’ astringently intelligent two-person play contains the most moving dramatization of old age in memory. Nicely balanced by Rebecca Mozo in Cameron Watson’s faultless staging, Alan Mandell’s halting, hilariously irascible and heroic Biddle is a marvel -- one of the best performances you are likely to see. This is the perfect jewel box surrounding Mandell’s glittering gem of a performance -- one not to be missed.

-- F. Kathleen Foley

Ends Sunday at the Colony Theatre Company, 555 N. 3rd St., Burbank. (818) 558-7000, Ext. 15.