JC Lee’s A & P Represent A Brave, New World by Barry David Horwitz Meet two young Greek warriors: One named A for Achilles and the other P for Patroclus. Looming behind them we hear Homer’s Iliad, with the Trojan War raging in their future. They speak like we do, and they struggle to…
Lauren Gunderson Illuminates Her Husband’s Life & Love by Barry David Horwitz Halfway into her new one-man show, beamed from Marin Theatre Company, wonderful playwright Lauren Gunderson chooses between the fascinating research of her virologist husband, Nathan Wolfe, and the history of their young family—a tricky choice. I enjoyed most of the 80 minute…
August Wilson’s Black Artists Demand Fair Play by Barry David Horwitz Surrounded by men who look down on her, Viola Davis’ Ma Rainey is sharp-edged and bossy. She knows that the white producers just want to profit from her voice. But she also knows that the Blues “make life possible.” Behind her heavy make-up…
Nicole Parizeau Paints a Portrait of Business vs. Art by Patricia L. Morin “The Human Ounce,” an audio play, begins by asking: How can we value a masterpiece—in any art form—when we learn the artist is a Nazi, pedophile, racist, or immoral? Two friends, the museum curator Biz (dynamic Kimberly Ridgeway) and museum educator…