Emily Mann Revives Outrage Over 1978 Moscone/Milk Murders by Jenyth Jo When San Francisco Supervisor Dan White revealed—in a taped confession—that he deliberately shot both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk in City Hall, the public expected a first-degree murder conviction. White, a former Marine, fireman, and cop, fired two bullets into the head…
Moisés Kaufman’s Docudrama Still Horrifies After 25 Years by Jenyth Jo In 1998, two ignorant losers brutally beat and hogtie Matthew Shepard to a barbed-wire fence post outside Laramie, Wyoming. Shepard was a 5’2” college student, targeted because he was gay. When the news of this hate crime came out, New York writer Moisés…
Lynn Nottage Paints Gripping Portrait of Workers Who Lose Everything by Lynne Stevens I arrived in Palo Alto early and took a stroll in Stanford Shopping Center. With its high-end shops that seem to be thriving, it presents a huge contrast to “Sweat” at Palo Alto Players. Lynne Nottage’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize play shines…
Andrew Bergh Exposes Greed & Spies in Sound of Music by Barry David Horwitz If you’ve ever wondered what went on behind the scenes in The Sound of Music or how the Nazis gained power in Austria, “The Radicalization of Rolfe” has the answers in powerful dramatic scenes. Come and mingle with the workers…