A Heathers Musical? How Very.
The surprise is not that someone made a musical out of Heathers. It’s that it took so long.
Read my review on KQED Arts. Read more
Consider the Yeasts
Ray of Light Theatre has managed to do something pretty remarkable with its 2014 season; there are almost no human characters in it at all. I say “almost” only because there was briefly a human narrator (Morgan Freeman, actually) in
Triassic Parq this June, but other than that it was all dinosaurs. And now Ray of Light goes back even further down the evolutionary ladder to a time when the only life on earth was salt-sucking yeasts. Read more
Carrie Bears Reexamination
The same night Dolores Claiborne the opera closes, Carrie the Musical opens. Coincidence or conspiracy? My investigation is on KQED Arts, including an examination of how Stephen King’s protagonists are like the X-Men.
Jerry Agonistes
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #97: Jerry Springer the Opera, Ray of Light Theatre, September 17.
