August Wilson Exposes Con Game that Keeps U.S. Unequal by Kristian Stovall & Barry David Horwitz August Wilson’s “Two Trains Running,” set in Pittsburgh’s Hill District in 1969, lands with a quiet intensity. Wilson’s Civil Rights Era drama recalls the original Black communities who owned land, loved freely, and grew their own food. The…
Ava Roy Adapts the Bard to Seaside Civil War Landmark by A.J. Jefferson “And what seem’d corporal melted / As breath into the wind…” A blustery Pacific gale buffets us at We Players’ “Macbeth” as we huddle together below that engineering marvel, the Golden Gate Bridge. At Fort Point, a Civil War monument, traffic…
Sona Tatoyan’s Powerful Story Alarms Kingdoms of Silence by Pina Piccolo Premiering to the world in a packed house at Potrero Stage, Golden Thread and Hakawati NGO’s co-production of “AZAD (the rabbit and the wolf)” challenges us with a dynamic, immersive experience that informs and entertains. The complex story brims with intriguing questions and…
Kaufman & Gronich Name Names of Mass Murderers by Barry David Horwitz “Here there are blueberries” is written on a post card sent by one of the young women working at Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp. Thanks to an album of photos discovered in 2007, we now can see how the Nazis lived in…