Josh Kornbluth Makes Revolution from Brain Research by Barry David Horwitz Josh Kornbluth has found a way to link self-discovery to political regeneration. The answer is empathy. Josh, a warm and inviting solo performer zooms his show from home in Berkeley, thanks to the Shotgun Players. Josh shows us how exercising the “empathy circuits”…
Gunderson, Smith, Spector Unfold Personal Crisis by Patricia L. Morin Aurora Theatre has come up with an experimental, three-part, audio thriller called “The Flats”—part play and part character study. Three local playwrights and their director have collaborated on a drama centered on the terror of a looming world disaster—akin to what we face…
Anna Deavere Smith Reignites Struggle over Police Brutality by Patricia L. Morin Twilight: Los Angeles, the PBS movie, resurrects the explosive problem of police brutality. Raging riots ignited over the acquittal of four officers who savagely beat Rodney King on March 3, 1991. Now, thirty years later, we are faced with the murders of…
Shakespeare Gets Dangerous in Women’s Prison Setting by Kim Waldron “Mischief, thou art afoot,” and it’s thrilling. In Director Phyllida Lloyd’s “Julius Caesar,” the actors appear as inmates in a women’s jail, fighting to mount their production under prison authority. First, a young woman shyly explains how she ended up in jail; then the…