Peter Prequel
Berkeley Playhouse enchants with Peter Pan prequel.
Read my review in the East Bay Times and Mercury News. Read more
Plight of the Mockingbird
If only To Kill a Mockingbird could be comfortably considered a period piece after all this time.
Read my review in the Mercury News. Read more
Angels in Lafayette
Town Hall takes on part two of Tony Kushner’s epic.
Read my review in the Contra Costa Times. Read more
Antisocial Media
Facebook is the rabbit hole of the internet. If you’ve ever had an account (and most readers probably do), you have no doubt spent hours looking old acquaintances up, looking through their posted photos and little details of their lives, or just watched the feed scroll by of items posted by people you used to know in real life, or maybe even people you just felt like you ought to know.
Assassin Nation
That Stephen Sondheim has picked some perverse subjects for his musicals shouldn’t be much of a surprise to anyone, given that one of his most beloved classics concerns a certain serial-killing barber who provides the secret ingredient for his neighbor’s meat pie shop. But a musical about the various people who have killed or attempted to kill the President of the United States from John Wilkes Booth down to John Hinckley Jr.? Now that’s really pushing the boundaries of good taste.
