Lynn Nottage Paints Gripping Portrait of Workers Who Lose Everything by Lynne Stevens I arrived in Palo Alto early and took a stroll in Stanford Shopping Center. With its high-end shops that seem to be thriving, it presents a huge contrast to “Sweat” at Palo Alto Players. Lynne Nottage’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize play shines…
Lauren Gunderson’s Women Keep Shakespeare’s Words Alive! by Lynne Stevens Lauren Gunderson convinces us that we must thank women for the very first collection of Shakespeare’s plays. If not for women behind the scenes, there would never have been the First Folio. Five ingenious women, true patrons of the arts, push their men to…
Shakespeare Warns Us: Give Up Vengeance! by Lynne Stevens In Theatre Lunatico’s “Romeo and Juliet,” The Chorus (all the cast) take poses depicting scenes we will witness love, anger, dance, play. They describe the two dignified but feuding households in fair Verona. But these teenagers have it right but have no control over their…
Lloyd Suh Reveals Asian Women’s Dreams in Moving Comedy by Lynne Stevens In the kitchen aisle at K-Mart, two lonely young immigrant women recognize each other as frequent shoppers. Chatty Luna (exuberant Nicole Javier) from the Philippines and shy Jane (self-possessed Narea Kang) from South Korea meet and Luna invites Jane home to share…