Mike Lew’s Rollicking Comedy Hits Home by Mary Lou Herlihy I succeed in life, and I fail. Occasionally I look for people and things to blame, including my gender. One thing I never blame is the color of my skin or the shape of my eyes. But Mike Lew helps us know how it…
Millennial Notes Ashley Smiley Unravels the City’s Gentrification Nightmare by Hamilton Nguyen Playwright Ashley Smiley reveals her touching vision of what is happening to her beloved City, her neighborhood, and its people. “Dirty White Teslas Make Me Sad” tells a San Francisco story about people’s lives destroyed by rampant gentrification—in the Fillmore and Hunter’s…
Kate Attwell Queries: “Can Love Can Survive Artificial Intelligence?” by Barry David Horwitz If you want to follow a hilarious comedy that pits tech life against the old-fashioned ways, Kate Atwell’s “Big Data” does the job with satire and pizzazz. BD Wong triumphs in the ultimate send up of the tech religion. Elusive and…
Mary Kathryn Nagle Links Colonial Greed & Wall Street Wolves by Robert M. Gardner In this time of deep division, “Manahatta” points a direction for America. It is refreshing to see a play about Native Americans that portrays them honestly. As an anthropologist who has studied Great Plains’ cultures, I have witnessed the continuing…