Lock Up Your Teenagers
When I heard that Impact Theatre artistic director Melissa Hillman was going to be helming Romeo and Juliet this year, the tag lines started to write themselves in my mind (“never was a story of more whoa”–that sort of thing). Although Impact specializes in new plays, Hillman’s own stagings for the company each year have been fast-paced productions of Shakespeare (or other classics like John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore).
Vision Thing
Bless me, blog, for I have sinned. Last weekend I made a pilgrimage out to Fort Mason’s Northside Theater (that is to say, Magic Theatre in the off-season) to see Glory Glory, a new play by a new local theater collective, Front Line Theatre. But for a multitude of reasons—mostly deadline week and exhaustion—I haven’t been able to write about it until now, when the two-weekend run is about to end.
