Millennial Notes Sharr White Conjures Competing Consciousnesses by Tyler Jeffreys “The Other Place” shows us how to empathize with a dementia patient. We follow a scientist, her family, and caregivers as she begins to enter that other world. Director Taylor Korobow places us inside the demented brain as it declines. The blue lit background…
Millennial Notes New Chancellor Celebrates Cal’s Theater of Ideas by Tyler Jeffreys and Barry David Horwitz “The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech” –Diogenes Zellerbach Playhouse at U.C., Berkeley hosted an historic event on July 14, 2017, when Berkeley’s first female Chancellor Carol T. Christ revealed her plans for a…
Millennial Notes Fierstein & Herman’s Drag Queens Conquer Conformity by Tyler Jeffreys At S.F. Playhouse’s “La Cage aux Folles,” the curtains, stage, and the audience are bathed in a fuchsia tint. Georges and Albin’s living room features a peacock palette—with teal, purple, and gold trimmings. And Director Bill English teases us with comic wallpaper…
Millennial Notes Tori Sampson’s Explosive Take on Black Panther Heyday by Adam Kaddoura The stage setting of “This Land Was Made, ” a workshop production, shows the stark struggles underlying Tori Sampson’s play. Presented by Ubuntu Theater Project at the Brooklyn Preserve in Oakland, the stained glass of the former Grace Presbyterian church creates…