Deneen Reynolds-Knott Scores with Compassionate Queer Comedy by Robert M. Gardner Deneen Reynold-Knott’s realistic slice of college life will certainly resonate with Gen X and Millennials. Opening with the headbanging, screaming sounds of “Violet” by Hole, we meet two college Fresh Persons dancing and jumping wildly on their beds. Soft-spoken Ciara (charming Sundiata Ayinde)…
Giddens & Abels’ Resonant Rhythms Celebrate Fortitude & Faith by Barry David Horwitz We all know that Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” to wake up his fellow ministers about violent segregation in the South. Until now, few of us knew about Omar ibn Said, an Islamic scholar who…
August Wilson’s Portrait of a Man at War with Himself by Barry Willis Meet Troy Maxson, Pittsburgh garbage collector, former baseball talent, father of two sons, and a man grappling mightily with his own fierce demons. Now on the Monroe Stage at 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, “Fences” is one of the finest…
Josh Kornbluth Proves We’re All in This Together! by Barry David Horwitz What a show! What a Genius! “Citizen Brain” is a one man show by the extraordinary solo truth-teller Josh Kornbluth. Josh became a UCSF Brain Fellow, along with being a master storyteller and comedian. Have you ever been at a solo comedy show…