Tim Pinckney’s Sparkling Script & Cast Conjure Hope by Barry David Horwitz In honor of World Aids Day on December 1st, “Still at Risk” melds the 80s with today, showing how the intimate battle with AIDS continues and escalates with COVID. “Still at Risk” jolts us right into our role in history. While Reagan,…
Finn & Lapine Make Musical Magic from 80s Outsiders by Evelyn Arevalo & Barry David Horwitz The “Falsettos” New York Jewish family and their friends live on the margins of 80s mainstream hetero life. The seven top flight actors express themselves in funny, regretful songs and in hilarious dance moves. Playing witty Seinfeld-type characters—gay…
Millennial Notes Stephen Spinella Slays Us as Prince of Darkness by Tyler Jeffreys Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes Part 1: “Millennium Approaches” At the Berkeley Rep production of Angels in America, Stephen Spinella dominates the stage as Roy M. Cohn, the real-life 50s to 80s, connected, sleazy, closeted gay…
Kushner & Taccone Magically Make “More Life!” by Barry David Horwitz Part One: “Millennium Approaches” More than 25 years ago, I saw the first production of Angels in America at the old Eureka Theater in the Mission, in 1991. Now we can celebrate Angels‘ brilliant connections between our personal lives and U.S. history, thanks…