Sam Chanse Illuminates Need for Perseverance & Preservation by Patricia L. Morin On a small stage with four ottomans, used as seats and storage, Playwright Sam Chanse reminds us of our need for connections to people and nature. A huge video screen of a peaceful underwater ocean with swaying colorful coral reefs greets us….
Lisa Peterson Opens the Door to Six Actors’ Creative Process by Lynne Stevens Virginia Woolf is very good at describing what it’s like to be alive and remembering fleeting moments. Lisa Peterson’s “Theatrical Experiment in 6 Movements” based on Woolf’s 1931 novel The Waves, is a mash up of media. Like the Power of…
Millennial Notes Shakespeare in Nature Makes Magic Times Two by Michael V. Rodriguez It’s not quite midsummer, but the dream has arrived at California Shakespeare Theater in the beautiful Orinda hills. Director Tyne Rafaeli breathes life into Shakespeare’s best fairytale by inspiring his actors to impossible perpetual motion. They prance and dance tirelessly, appearing…
Charlotte Jones Buzzes Us from Bee Hive to Black Holes by Barry David Horwitz “Humble Boy,” an endearing, witty British comedy, sports a beautiful garden and a huge, glowing, phallic bee hive onstage. That spectacular giant bee hive glows and buzzes, a spaceship with a mysterious message. “Humble Boy” opens with a ghostly scene…