Millennial Notes Andrew Lloyd Webber Creates a Thrilling & Distinct World by Ian Waters The lights dim. The stage seems darker than before the show started. From the shadows, amber eyes begin to gleam, probing us as we enter this foreign world. Watching Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats,” based on T.S. Eliot’s book of poetry…
Millennial Notes Karen Zacarías Questions the Ground Beneath Our Feet by Ian Waters In these turbulent times, political crisis reaches from climate change right down to our own backyard gardens. City Lights Theater Company, in San Jose, has created the perfect environment for Karen Zacarías’ “Native Gardens” to plant serious and comic questions in…
Millennial Notes Jason Robert Brown Sets Male & Female Flaws to Music by Ian Waters Have you ever reflected on a tragic event in your life, and asked where it all went wrong? And you found a jumble of memories. Well, here’s a musical that tries to untangle the past . . . “The…
Millennial Notes Sholem Asch’s Shocker Exposes Father, Boss, Brothel by Ian Waters Consider a man so fearful of God that he attempts to inscribe the same fear into women under his control—his wife, his daughter and the “working girls” in the brothel he owns, downstairs. What happens when this man, Yankl (Roni Alperin), loses…