Susi Damilano Movingly Reminds Us—Nazis Turn Out the Lights by Barry Thornton S.F. Playhouse’s bright new “Cabaret” puts us smack into the Kit Kat Klub in 30s Berlin, with a great band onstage. Director Susi Damilano gives us a superbly talented cast with amazing standout Cate Hayman as Sally Bowles, the nightclub’s singer. Set…
Millennial Notes Leguizamo & Taccone Transform Latin Colonial History by Tyler Jeffreys Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. —George Orwell (1984) “Kiss my Aztec!” conjures up an ancient indigenous identity that lurks in all our DNA. As the cast sings at the end: “The World…
Director Lily Tung Launches Stellar Ensemble by Cynthia K. Lopez Regardless of your time in America, there’s always that funny balancing act between your ethnic background and “fitting in” with the mainstream. In “Flower Drum Song,” Mei Li says it best when she compliments Ta: “Sometimes you seem 100 percent Chinese. Then a moment…
Millennial Notes Amy Sass Articulates Our Tick-Tock Time Anxieties by Carly Van Liere An iceless world with a city skyline that reaches the horizon . . . We’ve seen this prediction in every post-apocalyptic sci-fi story, from “Wall-E” to “Oblivion.” Ragged Wing Ensemble’s “Time Sensitive” conjures this dystopian vision with intense choreography and a…