Heidi Schreck Artfully Makes Her Story Our Story by Barry David Horwitz Heidi Schreck plays the Constitution like a Stradivarius, lyrically deploying Amendments in defense of women’s rights, LGBT rights, and Civil Rights. Heidi acquired her skills by competing in Constitutional debates for teenagers, organized by the stingy palace guardians at American Legion Halls….
Leila Buck’s Game Show Spoofs ICE Cruelty by Hannah Yurke “American Dreams,” with its built in rising dynamic and audience interaction, has the absorbing compulsion of reality TV— and a menacing undertone. The occasional, quickly resolved technical hitch adds the thrills and spills of live television as theater. Leila Buck and Tamilla Woodard pit…
Josh Kornbluth, Genius Comic, Uses Science for Revolution by Barry David Horwitz Josh Kornbluth has found a way to link self-discovery to political regeneration. He has blazed a trail from the personal to the political–with good humor, friendliness, and warmth. Josh, a delightful, inviting solo performer zooms his show from his apartment in Berkeley,…
Gunderson, Smith, Spector Unfold Personal Crisis by Patricia L. Morin Aurora Theatre has come up with an experimental, three-part, audio thriller called “The Flats”—part play and part character study. Three local playwrights and their director have collaborated on a drama centered on the terror of a looming world disaster—akin to what we face…