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The issue of immigration has been front and center on our stages this fall. Playwrights are responding not to the headlines (drama plays the long game) but to the human toll of entrenched prejudices and legislative negligence that have turned American politics into a blood sport.

Jocelyn Bioh’s “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding,” which ends its run at the Mark Taper Forum on Sunday, and Rudi Goblen’s “littleboy/littleman,” which had its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse last month, bring us closer to characters who came to the U.S. for opportunity and find themselves trapped in a bureaucratic nightmare that has relegated them to the shadows of their adopted homeland.

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