Millennial Notes Adam Strauss’s Epic Personal Story of Psychedelic Quest by Rudy Namikis For those who are experienced trippers or curious about the mystic world of psychedelics, Adam Strauss paints a vivid portrait of one man’s personal experience in the wide realm of mind-altering drugs and how they play with the demons of insanity….
Philip Kan Gotanda Recreates Post-Internment Japanese Family by Suraj Ramrakhyani Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda gives us the feel and taste of a Japanese-American family’s isolation, when they return from internment—broken and bare—to their abandoned home in Stockton, California. After the Matsumotos were taken away and locked up for two years in a U.S. internment…
Millennial Notes Anna Shneiderman Spotlights Oakland Gentrification Crisis by Ben Sloan “Overnight,” a new play by Oakland’s Flight Deck, thrusts “the now” right in your face. The Flight Deck’s groundbreaking reflection of Oakland is just what the doctor ordered. “Overnight,” conceived by Anna Shneiderman, gives us a glimpse into a world where buildings rise…
Danny Cozart’s Musical Satire Shines with Young Stars by Sydney Roberts Imagine a world where water is in short supply, where environmental funding is cut, where the world is run by a tyrannical big-business tycoon, and where corrupt policemen unfairly target citizens. No, I’m not talking about the U.S., today, I’m talking about “Urinetown:…