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…
David Henry Hwang Uses Love to Expose Deception in China/U.S. Deals by Patricia L. Morin In his crafty comedy “Chinglish,” David Henry Hwang forces us to face the consequences of rampant cultural misinterpretations. His characters play a game of deception that feels like a British spy comedy set in China. Hwang jumps into the…
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…
Millennial Notes Erika Dickerson-Despenza Delivers a Force of Nature by Beau McGlasson It can be a challenge to find joy and beauty in the face of cruelty, racism, and government failings. Sometimes it can even feel impossible. Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s difficult and heart-rending “shadow/land” responds to real oppression and racism with visible Black joy. She…