Feature articles on theater today.
Daniel Finzi Pasca Melds Italian Passion & Amazing Acrobats by Barry David Horwitz Montreal’s Cirque du Soleil brings a new personal and affectionate circus style to San Francisco, after three years. In “Corteo,” director Daniel Finzi Pasca has assembled acrobats, gymnasts, and dancers from all over the world to tell the story of a…
Reflections Lynn Nottage Exposes How Corporate Profits Trump People by Tom van Nuenen “Sweat,” the Pulitzer-awarded play by Lynn Nottage, is a powerful examination of the capitalist strategy of divide-and-conquer. Race is pitted against race, and generation against generation in America’s Rust Belt. On the drive to the spacious, modern Lesher Center for the…
Reflections “Essential Services Project” Offers Free Thrills by Patricia L. Morin Imagine the creativity, stamina, and drive it takes for one person to write, act, direct, and produce, a solo play every week for over a year. John Fisher, Executive Artistic Director of Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco, took on this mind-boggling feat in his…
Harrison David Rivers Depicts a Writer’s Return Home by Patricia L. Morin Forty-year-old writer Jesse Howard (H. Adam Harris) wants to unpack all the important experiences that led him to where he is today. Taking refuge in his childhood home, Jesse hears his mother saying again: “You want to have a happy plate, don’t…