Emma Rice’s Spectacular Brontë Reaches New Heights by Lynne Stevens Everything about the first act of Emma Rice’s “Wuthering Heights” is physical and passionate and dark as a Grimm’s fairy tale. As the story unfolds, actors playing the Yorkshire Moors, ominously sing: “What you sow, you will reap.” Costume Designer Vicki Mortimer dresses the…
Dominique Morisseau’s Temptations Make Us Love Them by Lynne Stevens From the first beat, “Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of The Temptations” lifts us out of our seats. It’s a trip down a memory lane of music with this fast-paced story of the 60s magical quintet. By the end we were all on…
Martin Crimp Plays With Our Discomfort by Lynne Stevens Did you ever feel you’re no one special and then learn everyone is talking about you behind your back? That’s what’s happening to Annie. Does she care? Hard to know because we never meet her. At Theatre Lunatico, Director Michael Barr’s interpretation of “Attempts on…
Marcus Gardley’s Modern Verse Version Shakes US Up! by Lynne Stevens At Cal Shakes, Co-directors Eric Ting and Dawn Monique Williams have staged a first-rate “Lear” with all its rage and fury. In his new, modern verse adaptation, playwright Marcus Gardley uses Bay Area Black history to modernize Shakespeare’s King Lear. The smartest play…