Soup Kitchen Confidential
Shotgun cooks up redemption in soup kitchen drama Grand Concourse.
My review is in the East Bay Times and Mercury News. Read more
Amen to That
James Baldwin’s first play, The Amen Corner, makes a surprisingly good case against religion.
Read my review in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
He Had It Coming
Don’t mess with Medea. Having given up her home and betrayed her family for the love of Jason, after marrying him and having children with him, she finds herself tossed aside and threatened with exile when Jason wants an advantageous marriage to a king’s daughter instead. That business about hell having no fury like a woman scorned? Yeah, Medea pretty much exemplifies that. As documented in Euripides’s ancient Greek tragedy that shares her name, her vengeance is legendary, so much so that we’re still watching that play 2,445 years after its premiere.
Bride of Fishingstein
It’s my first show of the year, and it’s a good one: Marisela Treviño Orta’s lyrical fairytale set in a Brazilian fishing village.
My review of AlterTheater’s The River Bride is in today’s Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Buddha Call
Tanya Shaffer’s self-produced musical with songwriter Vienna Teng, The Fourth Messenger, is a fascinating and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the life of the Buddha as a 21st century woman, and the investigative reporter who’s out to expose her. You can read all about it over on KQED Arts.
