Millennial Notes Jason Robert Brown Sets Male & Female Flaws to Music by Ian Waters Have you ever reflected on a tragic event in your life, and asked where it all went wrong? And you found a jumble of memories. Well, here’s a musical that tries to untangle the past . . . “The…
Millennial Notes Lynne Alvarez Asks Youth to Fight Colorism & Privilege by Evelyn Arevalo In “Esperanza Rising” at Teatro Visión, playwright Lynne Alvarez shows how racism comes from early training—and how we even use that racist brainwashing against ourselves. Esperanza, a spoiled Mexican “princess” can only see the world from her privileged point of…
Millennial Notes Sholem Asch’s Shocker Exposes Father, Boss, Brothel by Ian Waters Consider a man so fearful of God that he attempts to inscribe the same fear into women under his control—his wife, his daughter and the “working girls” in the brothel he owns, downstairs. What happens when this man, Yankl (Roni Alperin), loses…
Millennial Notes Eric Coble’s School Satire Erupts in “CelebrEthnic Potluck” by Krista Pearl McAtee In “Fairfield,” Pear Theatre goes for over the top and hilarious. The play centers on mixed-race Fairfield School, reflecting the race and class divides that plague our country. But Eric Coble turns daily conflict into raucous comedy. Under her watch,…