San Francisco
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FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS Loveland is the solo show that should be the template for all one-person show wannabes. Ann Randolph incorporates creative writing, broad but truthful characters, zaniness balanced with compelling dramatic moments, and, above all, an undeniably convincing story. In fact, you will be wondering if the tale of a woman who is…

A TEMPEST OF IMAGINATION Many productions of Shakespeare’s works pass themselves off as inventive merely because the setting is New York instead of Verona, or Renaissance costumes are swapped for Art Deco – rarely do these stylistic changes improve the psychology of the piece. When it came to my attention that The Tempest was to…

SWEET BEGINNINGS It is thrilling to hear the poetic dialogue of a propitious new American playwright for the first time; one who uses a unique, innovative and visionary arrangement of words that not only awaken your senses, but heighten your hopes that the profligate use of technological blather will not drown out a voice which…