Millennial Notes Carol S. Lashof Gives Life to Historical Tituba by Fritz Mad’Laine Those Women Productions, one of my favorites, is back at it again with their world premiere of Carol S. Lashof’s “Witch Hunt.” With reproductive justice rights under attack, Mother Earth in ruins, and the occult making a dramatic comeback among disillusioned…
Jay Kuo Uses Japanese Internment to Celebrate the Human Spirit by Jennifer Ann Charron “Allegiance” connects the shameful history of Japanese American internment during WWII with a family’s story of hope and resilience. We follow the Kimura family from their Salinas farm to captivity in a Wyoming relocation camp. But “Allegiance” is no downer….
Millennial Notes Marcus Gardley Sails into Black History with Music by Evelyn Arevalo Award-winning playwright Marcus Gardley, a renowned son of Oakland, morphs Homer’s Odyssey into a Black History saga. Cal Shakes has remounted Gardley’s lyrical piece that pays homage to the African-American oral tradition. In “Black Odyssey,” Ulysses Lincoln (talented J.D. Mollison) is…
Kushner & Taccone Magically Make “More Life!” by Barry David Horwitz Part One: “Millennium Approaches” More than 25 years ago, I saw the first production of Angels in America at the old Eureka Theater in the Mission, in 1991. Now we can celebrate Angels‘ brilliant connections between our personal lives and U.S. history, thanks…