Jen Silverman Creates a Dark & Thrilling Brontë Mashup by Lynne Stevens Tell your friends about this standout twisted tale “from Behind the Basement Door.” I am always blown away by Theatre Lunatico’s high quality of performances in their tiny, postage stamp-sized theater. Be one of the lucky ones to get one of its…
Michael Socrates Moran Touches Tony Kushner’s Epic with Genius by Barry David Horwitz When I saw the very first production of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America: Millennium Approaches” back in 1991, at the old Eureka Theater in San Francisco, I walked out of the theater dazed and wondering. What had I just seen? It…
Tarell Alvin McCraney Battles “High-Class” Homophobia with Music by Joseph Mutti “Choir Boy” illustrates how homophobia persists in the supposedly Christian world of the Charles R. Drew Preparatory School for Boys, an elite African American private school. Of course, it’s the scholarship student that the rich boys attack. Oscar-winning Oakland playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney…
Richmond/Maxwell’s Witty, Whimsical Musical Spotlights Stellar Ensemble by Kim Waldron The standard musical does not start with a death, let alone half a dozen, but there’s not much standard in this off-beat, yet upbeat production. Six teens killed in a carnival ride accident must compete for one chance to return to life in a…