Suzan-Lori Parks Imagines Slavery with Amazing Grace by Barry David Horwitz Looking for a dramatic meditation on what it’s like to be a millennial black guy or gal in these days in the good ol’ U.S. of A.? Then the accomplished and brilliant Suzan-Lori Parks has “White Noise” for all of us who make…
Millennial Notes Lynne Kaufman Channels Plath’s Restless Spirit by Michael Vincent Rodriguez We now know Sylvia Plath as one of the greatest poets of the 20th century and a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, but Lynne Kaufman’s succinct play is a window into the soul of the artist before the acclaim. In “Who Killed Sylvia…
Shakespeare & Currier Conjure “Midsummer” in Africa by Robert M. Gardner Marin Shakespeare Company has found the perfect backdrop for Shakespeare’s most beloved comedy. A romp in the magical forest brings thoughts of young loves, old loves, and new loves. But be prepared—in today’s Trumpean climate—Bottom is right: “And yet, to say the truth,…
Stephen Karam Looks at US from a Funny Angle by Barry David Horwitz What if aliens were observing us from another world, watching our daily lives? Would they be amused? In other words, what makes us do the terrible, wonderful, and mysterious things we do every day? In “The Humans,” Stephen Karam puts us…