Everybody’s Helen
So five Helen of Troys walk into a bedroom… My DIVAfest writeup is up on KQED Arts.
Not for Love or Money
Cyndi Lauper sang that “money changes everything,” but Susan Sobeloff’s debut play Merchants seems to indicate that Lauper may have been selling money short. Money doesn’t just change everything—it is everything. It’s the only thing worth talking about.
Outside the Wall
It turns out that after the end of the world, people are a lot like they are right now. Or at least that’s how it appears in The Nature Line, the last chapter in J.C. Lee’s trilogy This World and After. Sleepwalkers Theatre has devoted its entire season to the world premiere triptych, starting with This World Is Good last August and continuing with Into the Clear Blue Sky in April. Now the company finishes up with this play, in a sharp staging by Mina Morita.
