Intimate Blackout Show Thrills at Ashby Stage by Daniel Joseph Lilly Fifteen minutes before Christopher Chen’s sidesplitting and cerebral play “Caught” at Shotgun Players was about to begin, as we were looking at the pre-show art installations from The Xiong Gallery, the power went out. After milling about in the foyer of the Ashby…
Erotic, Engaging Psycho-Social Struggle by Daniel Joseph Lilly The evening with Theatre Rhinoceros, at the Eureka Theater, begins with the silhouette of Artistic Director John Fisher as Dr. Martin Dysart, lighting a cigarette. The lights come up as he takes a long drag. After that, he propels us headlong into “Equus” (1973), the boisterous…
“All Aunt Hagar’s Children” Proves Black Lives Matter by Daniel Joseph Lilly Word for Word’s creative staging of the short story “All Aunt Hagar’s Children” by Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward P. Jones gives us a real lift. A noir mystery set in Washington D.C. in the 50s, the story follows events in the…
Caribbean Folklore Inspires Jeff Augustin by Daniel Joseph Lilly Jeff Augustin’s fiercely passionate “The Last Tiger in Haiti,” directed by Joshua Kahan Brody, peers into the lives of Haitian restaveks, children sent to live with other families as domestic servants, often under conditions similar to slavery. Developed in The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep,…