70s Cult Classic Bridges Decades of Decadence by Jacob G. Dickerman For two hours, Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse transforms into the most depraved place in the Bay Area—and that’s saying a lot! In a debauched presentation of Richard O’Brien’s “The Rocky Horror Show,” Director Craig A. Miller encourages the house to unleash their…
Acting and Activism Meet in Depression Era Fantasy by Jacob G. Dickerman & Barry David Horwitz Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here still resonates with us 80 years later. The novel, adapted for the stage in 1936, by Lewis, himself, and John C. Moffitt, has been rewritten by Berkeley Rep’s Tony Taccone…
Jacob G. Dickerman has written for local publications The Daily Californian and Bulbes. A fifth year student at UC Berkeley, Jacob puts the super in super senior and the ic in critic. He studies music cognition and creative writing, and he has an amorous relationship with grammar.