Hershey Felder Plays the Master—and his Magical Music by Barry David Horwitz I would go anywhere anytime to see Hershey Felder’s artistry as writer, actor, pianist, and music idea man extraordinaire. Felder’s “Beethoven” delivers more history, biography, and brilliant performance than a gaggle of musicals. The time has come to acknowledge that Hershey Felder…
JC Lee Exposes Ambitious Achilles & Agonized Patroclus by Barry David Horwitz Meet two young men: One named A for Achilles and the other P for Patroclus. Looming behind them we see Homer’s Iliad, while the Trojan War rages in their future. They speak like we do, and they feel like us. Their language…
Desdemona Chiang Imagines a New Arden in OakTown by Barry David Horwitz For Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy “As You Like It,” Director Desdemona Chiang has placed the evil Duke’s Court in the green and leafy suburbs; but she has created the Forest of Arden in an abandoned warehouse in Oakland. Nina Ball’s great green vision…
Gunderson & Reddy Lavish Love on Immortal Henrietta Lacks by Barry David Horwitz TheatreFIRST has a World Premiere at Live Oak Theatre that you will talk about for weeks. “Hela: The PoeticScientific DreamFate of Henrietta Lacks” by Lauren Gunderson and Geetha Reddy breaks free from gravity and takes off into our future. Based on…