Millennial Notes Jack Thorne’s Complex Tale Features Stellar Cast & Fireworks by Jordan Freed I was three years old when the first Harry Potter book was published. I remember begging my mother to read just one more chapter before bedtime. Jump to summer 2011— at sixteen, I make the evening news for camping out…
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 Tim Cowbury Provides Bitter Insights into Refugee Crisis by Jordan Freed Usually, a Kafkaesque dive into the absurd world of the political asylum system would absolutely be my kind of play. But in “The Claim,” British playwright Tim Cowbury is so focused on pushing our limits, the story itself suffers. Language is…
Millennial Notes Shakespeare Kicks Off New Season of Fantastic Live Theater by Jordan Freed Watching “The Winter’s Tale” at Cal Shakes feels like witnessing two prodigious trapeze artists pull off a miraculous balancing act. At every moment, I’m nervous things are about to go terribly wrong, but watching the performance succeed like a high…