Michael Cavanagh’s Reimagined Version Entertains & Bewilders by Jennifer Ann Charron Mozart’s Don Giovanni is nonpareil—a masterpiece with an amazing score, jam packed with beautiful arias, duets, and recitatives, and a creepy cautionary tale to keep your morals in check. When Mozart was at his creative height, he collaborated with poet Lorenzo Da Ponte…
Aishah Rahman Unfolds Grief Inflicted on Black Families by Patricia L. Morin Aishah Rahman’s 1987 play “The Mojo and the Sayso” tells the story of a 1973 murder of a 10-year-old-boy in Queens, New York. The boy was shot in the back by a drunken plainclothes cop. They charged the police officer, and then…
Millennial Notes Andrew Lloyd Webber Creates a Thrilling & Distinct World by Ian Waters The lights dim. The stage seems darker than before the show started. From the shadows, amber eyes begin to gleam, probing us as we enter this foreign world. Watching Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats,” based on T.S. Eliot’s book of poetry…
Dave Malloy Melds Music, Madness in Brilliant Chorus by Barry David Horwitz Dave Malloy has gathered us at Berkeley Rep with his musical show from Signature Theatre in New York. We find ourselves in the basement of a church for a 12-step meeting where eight singers give up their phones and confess, “Hello, my…