February 20, 2016
“Totem and Taboo” at Central Works
“The Age of the Father is over”
On October 1, 1955, The Honeymooners debuted on national television with an episode titled “TV or not TV”. The story introduced a...
Jaime Robles
February 19, 2016
“Champion: An Opera in Jazz”
Terrence Blanchard’s musical eulogy
An older man sits hunched on a bed, holding a shoe. As he sings, his vibrant bass penetrating the surrounding darkness of the theater, he muses on the shoe and its missing mate. The shoe...
February 18, 2016
“The Unfortunates” at ACT’s The Strand Theater
Our unfortunate collective violence
This past weekend ACT opened a new play at The Strand. Referred to in the program as a musical, The Unfortunates is set in wartime,...
February 13, 2016
The Lamplighters present “Ruddygore”
Pink cheeked and diabolical
Ruddygore; or, The Witch’s Curse, premiered in London in 1887, and was the 10th of the 14 comic operas written by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan during their long collaboration. It was not an instant hit, and it...
February 5, 2016
“Ondine” at The Cutting Ball Theater
All at sea ...
Katharine Sherman’s retelling of the story of Ondine opened this past week at The Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco. The play is part of this black box theater’s well-conceived experimental...
January 26, 2016
Satchmo at ACT’s Geary Theater
It’s hard to know where to begin describing Satchmo at the Waldorf. All the explanatory terms fall flat in giving an overall impression of this intelligently written and brilliantly acted play about...