Itamar Moses & Gaby Alter Spoof Modern Love with Glamor & Glitz by Jennifer Charron Love them or hate them; or love to hate them—reality dating shows fascinate audiences across the globe. “Nobody Loves You,” a wacky musical comedy at ACT, looks behind the scenes look at competitive dating shows, while strangely revealing an…
Tim Firth’s British Women Strip to Express Love & Hope by Jennifer Charron “Calendar Girls” tells the hilarious true story of the deep friendship among a group of Yorkshire women who band together to help out their local hospital. Adapted from the 2003 film and its acclaimed 2008 stage production in London, the play…
Bunin & Rafaeli Translate Tween Suffering to Spectacular Staging by Jennifer Charron Showcasing the complexities of adolescence is an impossible feat. Yet playwright Keith Bunin and director Tyne Rafaeli have adapted Ali Benjamin’s lush coming-of-age novel The Thing About Jellyfish, a National Book Award finalist, for the stage. The results make an intriguing spectacle….
Tchaikovsky’s Gorgeous Score Revels in Romance, Repression by Jennifer Ann Charron Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” shines as the perfect follow up to SF Opera’s Centennial extravaganza “Antony and Cleopatra.” Rather than the elaborate ‘love story of the ages,’ “Onegin” is a subtle, intimate story of romantic disappointments and the recovery of human dignity. Tchaikovsky, himself,…