Carroll & Snider’s Affectionate Acrobats Thrill & Inspire by Barry David Horwitz You can only see “Dear San Francisco” at Club Fugazi in North Beach. Born out of Cirque du Soleil with a dash of “A Chorus Line,” the multi-cultural cast flies up to the rafters and swoops into our hearts. The beautiful young…
Stefano Massini’s World-Wide Hit Unmasks Capitalist Bravado by Barry David Horwitz With a magnificent rafter-reaching glass and steel revolving cube, “The Lehman Trilogy” depicts American capitalism from the Alabama cotton fields to high-rise Wall Street–right up to the Crash of 2008. Stefano Massini’s extraordinary novel, adapted by Ben Power, reveals a truth: the Lehman…
Jonathan Larson’s Musical Blossoms with Youthful, 90s Passions by Barry David Horwitz “tick…. tick…. Boom!” is more than the origin story of “Rent.” It’s a witty and brilliant commentary on how artists are treated in the U.S. What happens to the young composer when he refuses to submit to the corporate machine? Larson’s premature…
Harvey Fierstein’s Classic Gay Comedy Touches Our Hearts by Barry David Horwitz Lend an ear and you will hear an authentic argument between a gay, New York drag queen son and his disappointed Jewish mom from Florida. In Harvey Fierstein’s “Torch Song,” Nancy Carlin plays Mrs Beckoff with seriousness and passion, in the new…