Millennial Notes Ike Holter Evokes Teachers at Breaking Point by Daryanna Lancet & Barry David Horwitz An “Exit Strategy” only becomes necessary when we are losing the battle. Ike Holter’s “Exit Strategy” demands that we answer a crucial question: Why are we waging war against our own public-school system? Harsh, inspiring, and forceful, Aurora…
Millennial Notes Oscar Wilde Finds Comedy in ‘Pay to Play’ Politics by Evelyn Arevalo It’s London in 1895: Love and politics are everywhere, including cocktail parties where political golden boy Sir Robert Chiltern (Daniel Zafer-Joyce) is the shining light of high-brow government circles. Robert provides honesty and stability for his wife, and his party’s…
Shakespeare’s Roman Empire Strikes New Trumpean Notes by Barry David Horwitz I have always avoided this play. It’s a horror show of grotesque, gory, and ghoulish murders, rapes, and tortures that take place in a fictional late Roman Empire. “Titus Andronicus” sports lots of ranting and raving and mainly, the ever-popular REVENGE, that drips…
Millennial Notes Annie Baker Gives New Meaning to Daily Grind by Beau McGlasson Popcorn, soda bottles, and wet lettuce litter the floor of a run-down suburban movie theater. Annie Baker’s “The Flick” wants to overwhelm us with the details. Baker builds drama from awkward conversations, unrequited workplace crushes, and three young characters’ discontent with…