Millennial Notes Joel Coen Offers Beauty & Horror, but Diminishes Actors by Alex Stimmel Director Joel Coen’s new movie The Tragedy of Macbeth takes a fresh yet often lackluster look at Shakespeare’s renowned classic. His cinematography and sound design are imaginative and emotive, creating a world of magic and horror that keeps us glued…
Millennial Notes Scott Denison Crafts a Delightful Dickensian World by Rachel Norby “A Christmas Carol” is everyone’s favorite holiday tradition. Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale applies to any time of year, and perhaps more acutely to this pandemic year. Dickens may have been writing about Victorian England, but his picture of poverty and suffering…
Millennial Notes Sondheim & Lapine Brew Powerful Musical Magic by Jordan Freed Everyone I know either loves “Into the Woods” or hates it. When I saw it as a teenager I hated it. Only after I worked on a production, did I fall in love with Sondheim’s weaving of our lives into classic fairy…
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…