Min Kahng Exposes Senior High Jinx in Raucous Comedy by Mary Lou Herlihy A horny grandma and her self-obsessed granddaughter light up the stage with comedic timing and musical gifts. In grandma’s bedroom at the Happy Pleasant Valley Senior Apartments, men are dropping faster than red herrings and sex toys. When we meet frisky…
Valcq & Alley Shine Bright, Musical Light on Small Town USA by Mary Lou Herlihy Hope is the thing with feathers. —Emily Dickinson “The Spitfire Grill,” set in the fictional town of Gilead, Wisconsin, IS small town America. Children are lost to foreign wars, jobs have gone offshore, and small businesses struggle. Whole communities…
S.F. Mime Troupe Puts Bob Cratchit & Songs Center Stage by Barry David Horwitz In “A Red Carol,” the SF Mime Troupe has revealed the true focus of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Performed in Z Space’s indoor, industrial, thrift store settings of old furniture and brilliant songs, The Mime Troupe offers a new vision….
John Fisher’s Spectacular Staging Puts Fascism in Our Faces by Barry David Horwitz Dramatic genius John Fisher has assembled a heavenly cast to explore the Hell of 1930s Germany—to live out the nightmare of newly-minted Nazism. Substitute MAGA for NAZI and we are re-living “Cabaret” right now in the U.S. Fisher seduces us into…