Will Arbery Builds Characters Who Embody Our Conflicts by Patricia L. Morin “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” at SF Playhouse tells a unique story mixing right-wing Catholic college graduates’ ideas and a 1977 doomsday philosophy. Will Arbery wants us to take a hard look at the real differences between liberal and conservative thinking,…
Anthony Veneziale Leads Improv Riffs, Revives Our Lives by Barry David Horwitz “Freestyle Love Supreme” is a wonderful new kind of theater. After all, they have become a movement, a school, a national juggernaut for developing new talent. They are lively, timely, involving, and life-affirming. We are looking at a wall of speakers and…
Lisa Ramirez’s Teen Girls Deliver an Urgent Message by Barry David Horwitz “On the night Joan was born—all the animals in all the barns and stables in the village gave voice. And I quote. “Each animal in its own tongue so loudly that everyone in the village was kept awake.” Lisa Ramirez writes with…
Terry Guest Fashions a Fabulous Foray into Drag by Barry David Horwitz Terry Guest’s play about two drag queens in Albany, Georgia proves yet again that these gals have always been the sharp cutting edge of gay liberation. Guest builds a stairway of poetic language to conduct Courtney (delightful Devin Cunningham) and her acolyte Vickie…