Doug Wright’s Masterpiece Spotlights Superb Trans SHERO by Barry David Horwitz “I Am My Own Wife” startles with beauty and grace. The solo show has lost none of its charm since bursting on the Broadway scene in 2003 and winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Oakland Theater Project has affirmed its position as a…
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…
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…
Amelio Garcia Tells Passionate Queer Coming Out Tale by K. Marguerite Caronna There’s no escaping those Greeks. “Red Red Red” is based on Greek scholar Anne Carson’s queer coming of age story called Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, which includes fragments of poetry by Greek poet Stesichorus. Amelio Garcia’s play tracks Red’s…