Mozart Meets Chaplin in Jazz Age Animation & Flapper Fashion by Barry David Horwitz What’s not to love about an evening with Mozart at SF Opera in silent movie style, intriguing animation, and a Wizard of Oz storyline? There’s lots of art in re-making Mozart into a magical mystery tour—in 20s Jazz Age costumes,…
Michael Wayne Turner III Resurrects MLK, Writer & Performer by K. Marguerite Caronna The Reverend stands in the shadows, behind an imposing white pulpit on a raised red stage at Oakland Theater Project. Candles illuminate the dais, and perimeter of the performance space. As the audience enters, a self-possessed Michael Wayne Turner III prepares,…
John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Play Remains Relevant by Mary Lou Herlihy Before the play begins, I chat with the woman next to me. She shares a painful story about her local church where accusations of sexual improprieties resulted in the removal of two priests. In both cases, she believed them to be innocent….
Stefano Massini’s World-Wide Hit Unmasks Capitalist Bravado by Barry David Horwitz With a magnificent rafter-reaching glass and steel revolving cube, “The Lehman Trilogy” depicts American capitalism from the Alabama cotton fields to high-rise Wall Street–right up to the Crash of 2008. Stefano Massini’s extraordinary novel, adapted by Ben Power, reveals a truth: the Lehman…