Jack Thorne Mingles Bat Love with Modern Mayhem by Barry David Horwitz “Let the Right One In” offers a theatrical spectacle that mingles slow moving horror with intimate adolescent yearnings—Romeo and Juliet with vampires. Horrors that keep popping up when we least expect them. We could focus on the psychological traumas of the two…
John Logan Celebrates Sue Mengers, Hollywood’s First Woman Superagent by Patricia L. Morin “I’ll eat you last” is the caustic last sentence the renowned Hollywood talent agent Sue Mengers imparts to clients who left her or displeased her. Her promise or threat best represents her wit and confidence. Set in the 70s, John Logan’s…
W. Fran Astorga’s Comic Vision Inspires with Grace & Eco-Poetry by Barry David Horwitz I have never seen a play like “Exhaustion Arroyo: Dancin’ Trees in the Ravine.” “Arroyo” is a totally original show that offers bi-lingual dialogue in English and Spanish—with no loss of understanding. Playwright W. Fran Astorga takes us along with…
Millennial Notes Marc Anthony Thompson Transforms Minstrel Satire to Black Joy by Korinne Nickings The lights go down … and darkness fills the room as I listen to the sounds of screams, and sloshing of ocean waves and I am instantly transported to the transatlantic voyage of Africans in chains. Stage lights rise and…