Shakespeare & Perrone Bring on the Magic & the Clowns by K. Marguerite Caronna A picnic. The Berkeley Hills. Spreading oaks. Theater in the park. Inferno Theatre proudly offers a joyful production of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” in the newly renovated John Hinkel Park Amphitheatre, kicking off the season for outdoor plays. Adaptor, Director, Set…
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…
Millennial Notes Mel Brooks Exposes Taxes & Tricks in Musical Comedy by Hamilton Nguyen “The Producers” imagines a Dynamic Duo trying to manipulate IRS rules to make money on a big musical FLOP. A sleazy Broadway producer and his shy accountant put on a a ridiculous and sure-to-fail show praising, of all people, Hitler!…
Millennial Notes Gloria Bond Clunie’s Lyrics Encourage Kids to Dance by Rosa Leither Giraffes Can’t Dance, a picture book by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees, has been a family favorite since our kids were a few months old. So, expectations ran high as we entered BACT’s theater in the round. Seven-year-old Itasca and five-year-old…