Wendy MacLeod Dishes Out Feast of Thoughtful Delights by Patricia L. Morin You know what it’s like, right? You’re on vacation, waiting in a restaurant for waitstaff to serve you. It seems like forever before your water arrives and you can order a drink. The menus sit in front of you closed because…
Taub & Woolery’s Musical Updates Shakespeare’s Rom-Com by Patricia L. Morin & Barry David Horwitz In Director Bill English’s Tiffany-bejeweled Forest of Arden, trees glow with stained glass beauty, while lovers experiment with gender-swap. Arden is a sacred “in-between” place where old ways of loving get revalued, and unexpected affections blossom. “As You Like…
Ashton & Menken’s Musical Confronts Capitalist Greed by Patricia L. Morin “Little Shop of Horrors” has moved to a new neighborhood. From New York’s mainly white Skid Row district, Director Jeffry Lo has cleverly planted us in a cramped Chinatown flower shop in San Francisco. Lo highlights the largest and oldest Asian community in…
Shad Willingham Delivers Joyous Christmas Comedy by Patricia L. Morin Did you ever feel as though you were having one of those days, where nothing seems to be going your way? And the outcome feels like it will be a farce? Then, when you look back at the day, you survived, and well, things…