Photo: Paul Marotta

Since 2010, ArtsEmerson, Emerson College’s professional theater producing organization, has mounted acclaimed stage presentations from all over the world. ArtsEmerson hasn’t ignored its own back yard, however, as evidenced once again by its latest show: Mala, the world premiere of a one-woman show by award-winning, locally based actress and playwright Melinda Lopez (pictured). Through November 20 at the Emerson/Paramount Center’s Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theatre in Boston’s Theatre District, Mala is an irreverent, semi-autobiographical play about being there for a loved one at the end of life—and during the epic winter snowfall of 2015, no less. Both moving and humorous, Lopez tells a universal tale to which we can all relate.