Don Reed Wins Our Hearts with Warmth & Wit—Oakland Style by Barry David Horwitz If you’ve never seen a Don Reed stand-up show, now is the time for a rare treat. Don Reed has come home from Hollywood, and he’s got lots to tell us about how it rolls down there. His imitations of…
Jack Thorne Mingles Bat Love with Modern Mayhem by Barry David Horwitz “Let the Right One In” offers a theatrical spectacle that mingles slow moving horror with intimate adolescent yearnings—Romeo and Juliet with vampires. Horrors that keep popping up when we least expect them. We could focus on the psychological traumas of the two…
W. Fran Astorga’s Comic Vision Inspires with Grace & Eco-Poetry by Barry David Horwitz I have never seen a play like “Exhaustion Arroyo: Dancin’ Trees in the Ravine.” “Arroyo” is a totally original show that offers bi-lingual dialogue in English and Spanish—with no loss of understanding. Playwright W. Fran Astorga takes us along with…
Gunderson, Lowdermilk, Kerrigan’s Musical Tells Judges’ HERstories by Barry David Horwitz This stirring spectacle of three women who became Supreme Court justices illuminates the story of American justice. Lauren M. Gunderson shows us how the law progresses and then regresses. “Justice: A New Musical” tells the HERstory of three renowned women: Sandra Day O’Connor…