Stand Up If You Want to Be Here/There!
John Kolvenbach’s new play, produced by Vs. Theatre Co, and Circle X, is a deceptively thoughtful, participatory piece, and at 70 minutes it is also short! As a result, I can […]
Ortlieb
Kessler, Morales. Photo by Ian Flanders.
Theatricum Botanicum Scores with The Last, Best Small Town
In The Last, Best Small Town that just opened at Theatricum Botanicum, my own experiences growing up are clarified with uncanny specificity. John Guerra’s elegant rendering of Thornton Wilder’s original “Our Town” reinforces […]
Valenzo, Kester
A Rainbow of Characters Festoon Ophelia’s Jump
One of the joys of any Shakespeare production is the opportunity to apply fully-formed concepts to enhance Shakespeare’s loose dramaturgy. The Claremont-based Ophelia’s Jump enlivens the flood of Shakespearean revivals around […]
Rogers, Trotter, Lozano, Ayers. Photo by Jenny Graham.
Light Up The Summer at Fountain Theatre’s New Outdoor Stage
What a breath of fresh air — literally — to experience the Fountain Theatre’s new outdoor venue at the opening of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ send-up of Dion Boucicault’s 1859 depiction of […]
SB 805 Draws roster of Stars
An impassioned Josephina Lopez kicked off the press conference to pass SB 805, as it was languishing in the Appropriations Committee. It has been an urgent matter to get the word […]
Live THEATRE NOW! COME ON DOWN TO DUGAN’S BACK Yard!
What a joy to finally experience a live event in company with a socially distanced group of like-minded audience members! That’s what drew me to the second iteration of Tell Him […]