Lisa Ramirez Traps Latina Torment in a Cage by Robert M. Gardner Ubuntu Theater Project’s “To The Bone” by Lisa Ramirez shocks us with its immediacy. Writer and lead actor, Lisa Ramirez brings us this brutally honest play about five immigrant women working—under degrading conditions— in a poultry factory in New York state. Olga…
Lieber and Stoller’s Whirlwind Trip Down Memory Lane by Robert M. Gardner Imagine my surprise and delight when I discovered that two Jewish boys from New York wrote the musical timeline of my youth. Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller are responsible for writing more than 70 songs that made the music charts and defined…
Massenet Twists the Tale of our Favorite Knight by Robert M. Gardner “Don Quichotte,” the second show of Island Opera’s 2017 season, capitvates us with its comedy and romance. The intimate venue folds the audience into the stage action. The lyrical qualities of the voices of Dulcinee (Buffy Baggott) and Sancho Panza (Igor Viera)…
Talented Singers Update Donizetti’s Comic Opera by Robert M. Gardner What makes a complete life? This age old dilemma is the central question of this little gem of a production of Donizetti’s comic opera “Don Pasquale” at the Island City Opera. Set in a modern San Francisco, the inspired set design by Scott Barringer…