Terrence McNally’s Lyrics Expose Our National Gullibility by Mary Lou Herlihy “Catch Me If You Can,” a hilarious high-energy musical made from Steven Spielberg’s film, has us cheering for a pathological liar and con man. Though he’s more crooked than Lombard Street, we root for a disarming fraud and faker. Is THIS how it…
Tina D’Elia Tangoes with Heartbreak, SF Style by Yael Bright In a daring one-woman show, Tina D’Elia fights the uphill battle of a Bay Area lesbians who break up with their lovers. D’Elia plays a host of colorful queer roles all facing loneliness head-on together. D’Elia’s dreamy dramedy “The Break-Up! A Latina Queer Torch…
Ethan Lipton Adapts “The Skin of Our Teeth” with US in Mind by Mary Cushman (with Maude Meisel) I remind my preschoolers, when we’re reading a book about dinosaurs, that “there were no people back then.” Not so in “The Seat of Our Pants,” where an American family lets a dinosaur and a mammoth…
Amy Herzog Touches on Sensitive Medical Mysteries by Philippa Kelly “Mary Jane,” by the Actors’ Reading Collective at Magic Theatre, asks some tough questions: How do we care for society’s most vulnerable when the last drops of resilience have been wrung from exhausted parents and medical staff? How do caregivers climb an ever-higher mountain…