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…
Director Bogdonoff Grabs Our Hearts, Strikes a Chord by Lynne Stevens We are in radio STUDIO A at WBFR in Manhattan on Christmas Eve, 1946, watching a radio version of It’s a Wonderful Life. Contra Costa Civic Theatre has revived last year’s exceptional show with the addition of Fred Pitts as earnest George Bailey,…
Michaela Goldhaber Revives First Female Playwrights by Lynne Stevens My friend and I thoroughly enjoyed “The Lady Scribblers” and I think any woman who has felt inhibited in her work will enjoy the comedy, too. Michaela Goldhaber’s neo-Restoration comedy, produced by Custom Made Theatre and Those Women Productions, has all the rhymes and reasons…
Octavio Solis Celebrates A Life Lived along the Border by Lynne Stevens We can all relate to family relationships, teenage pregnancies, romantic attractions, and youthful anxieties. But we cannot fully understand the duality of coming from what Octavio Solis calls the “other side” of “this invisible line we call the Border.” Word for Word…