By Sean Taylor There is a sudden danger to approaching a mirage with open arms. The best practice I have found when dealing with an illusion is to question everything, lest one be ensnared in a loss of reality. So why is it, that when I entered the Tortona Big Top on the point of […]
by Charles Kruger Playwright Matthew Lopez is best known for the Obie-Winning drama The Whipping Man, which has had over forty productions worldwide since its 2011 debut. Lopez is the very definition of “up and coming playwright.” The Legend of Georgia McBride is a comedy about a down-and-out Elvis impersonator who achieves success as a drag performer. […]
by Charles Kruger Fans of Janis Joplin, and, indeed, anybody who appreciates the blues, will enjoy this play at A.C.T., which is really more of a concert tribute. All the great songs are included, and Kacee Clanton, as Janice, is a musician of enormous skill and impact. Janis cannot be recreated, but Clanton probably comes […]
by Rob Bowden We’re well into another year of Marvel dominance at the cinemas. “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2” was a smash success, “Spider-Man: Homecoming” could well be the biggest movie of the year when it debuts in July, and “Thor: Ragnarok” will be no slouch either. In other words, another year, another set […]
by Charles Kruger It was the best of times and the worst of times last week, as we attended two revivals at the San Francisco Opera: “Rigoletto” and “Don Giovanni.” The experience was a lesson in what can go right and wrong with a revival. Ideally, a revival should capture the best aspects of the […]
by Charles Kruger Prolific local playwright and director Stuart Bousel admits to being a Greek geek. This does not refer to his college fraternity, but to Greek mythology, gods, goddesses, titans, and all that jazz. With “Twins,” he takes on the story of Apollo and Artemis—God of the Sun, Goddess of the Moon, children of […]
by Sean Taylor If you study the movement of time, you make clocks, and may be called a Horologist. There is a pleasure to this perfection that clock makers know, measuring seconds as if they invented them. Lin Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” is a clock made of people and stories and songs and measures with counter […]
