EVERYTHING KREYÓL IS NEW AGAIN Seemingly caught between differing identities and life paths, Simone is at a crossroads. Half African American and half Haitian, this early thirties, native New Yorker recently left a potentially successful career in finance because it didn’t suit her more humanistic values. Looking to help heal the world and herself, Simone […]
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COWARD’S ANGELS ARE A LAUGH RIOT Almost one hundred years after its somewhat scandalous debut, Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels is enjoying a revival at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre, where it runs through November 17. Michael Barrett Austin & Kina Kantor The British playwright is enjoying a revival of his own in the Bay Area, with a […]
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EXPLORING THE GULF IN A RELATIONSHIP New Conservatory Theater is premiering in it’s West Coast debut, Audrey Cefaly’s 2017 play The Gulf – An Elegy. This intense one-act two-hander traces the seemingly laid back relationship between two women: Betty (Lauren Domingo) and Kendra (Amy Meyers). They’re spending a lazy afternoon on a small fishing boat […]
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A SILENT SCREAMS One of the spookiest horror films ever made was completed before most of today’s audiences were born. Nosferatu, a 1922 German Expressionist horror film about the vampire Count Orlok directed by F. W. Murnau may be far better known for its creepy-ass make-up given to the vampire, but horror buffs understand that […]
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STARRING GEORGE CLOONEY IN HIS BROADWAY PREMIERE Good Night, and Good Luck, a new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer, will premiere on Broadway at the historic Winter Garden Theatre (1634 Broadway). Performances will begin on Wednesday, March 12, with an opening night set for Thursday, April 3, 2025. Clooney […]
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A WELL-PLAYED PIANO Though the surface plot of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson is fairly simple — an estranged brother and sister argue over whether to sell or keep a beautiful piano that has been in the family for generations – that simplicity is very deceptive. For the piano is not only a valuable instrument […]
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Whore’s Eye View is a unique event, more of a lecture on the history of women’s sexuality than the personal monologue one would expect from a sex-worker. Now at HERE Arts Center as part of an international tour, and directed by Katherine Wilkinson, writer/performer Kaytlin Bailey literally starts from the Fertility Goddesses and biblical Lilith, […]
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MEMORY AS AN ACT OF LOVE The East Coast premiere of playwright Steven Drukman’s snappy and cleverly written Pru Payne is movingly brought to the stage under SpeakEasy Stage founder Paul Daigneault’s direction. A top-notch cast gives voice to Drukman’s script, led by the especially impressive Karen MacDonald in the demanding role of Pru, a […]
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OUR SHOCKING HEALTH CARE SYSTEM Rawshock, a new drama by Rita Lewis which opened last night for a limited run by Manhattan Rep at the Chain Theatre, is set in a psychiatric hospital. As is often the case in this genre of plays and films, the people outside the mental health facility are more disturbed […]
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Today, Concord Theatricals Recordings released the audio recording of Jason Robert Brown and Stephen Sondheim: Live in Concert on digital platforms worldwide. Recorded in June 2019, the album captures Broadway stars performing the music and lyrics of Jason Robert Brown and Stephen Sondheim alongside the songwriters themselves, in what would become Sondheim’s final public performance. The album will be available on 2-LP […]
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