Millennial Notes Del Shores Fashions Fabulous Fantasies of Mom & Singing Sisters by Evelyn Arevalo Domineering mother Ditty Blaylock (vibrant Christine Macomber) has been offered the opportunity of a lifetime. She will be honored on television for 50 years of Gospel song writing. There’s just one catch, her three daughters–The Blaylock Sisters–must reunite in…
Myler & Wheetman’s Rousing Musical Takes Us to the River by Robert M. Gardner “Mark Twain’s River of Song” launches us on a foot-tapping journey back to the music of the 1800s on Mark Twain’s Mississippi River. TheatreWorks’ broad stage is flanked by trees with hanging Spanish Moss that frame a large screen for…
August Wilson’s Twenties Saga Traces ‘Race’ Records by Barry David Horwitz “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” burns with suppressed Jazz Age anger: “How to deal with the white man?” Accomplished singer Susie Butler plays real-life 1920s Ma Rainey, the “Mother of the Blues.” Butler showing us how a powerful Black singer could exert power over…
Millennial Notes S.F. Mime Troupe Sets Sail for Affordable Housing by Fritz Mad’Laine Anyone living in the Bay Area today can tell you that we are in the midst of a housing crisis. Class divisions are at an all-time high as the price of living skyrockets, while wages remain pitifully low. With tech tycoons…