Martin & Brickell Celebrate Blue Grass & Women’s Rights by Lynne Stevens The musical “Bright Star,” a bittersweet Romeo and Juliet story, shows “grown-ups” thwarting young lovers. Country music intensifies the love story as we flash back and forth between 1923 and 1946. Director Marilyn Langbehn takes us to three small towns in North…
Millennial Notes Leslie Martinson Turns People & Props into Time Travelers by Jose Martin Aveldanes After a night out in an London musical hall in 1935, a banal Englishman, Richard Hannay (elegant Lance Gardner), meets a mysterious, soon-to-be-murdered German woman. In the satirical and comic “The 39 Steps,” which spoofs the Hitchcock movie, Hannay…
Tennessee Williams Gets A Smart Stanley & Trans-Blanche by Barry David Horwitz In a storefront theater in Brooklyn, Stanley Kowalski charges in with a roar of “STEEEELLLLAAAA!” that echoes from decades past. Max Carpenter is a down-to-earth Stanley and yet, superhuman in the great role. Carpenter’s Stanley has his feet on the ground—he is…
Susi Damilano Movingly Reminds Us—Nazis Turn Out the Lights by Barry Thornton S.F. Playhouse’s bright new “Cabaret” puts us smack into the Kit Kat Klub in 30s Berlin, with a great band onstage. Director Susi Damilano gives us a superbly talented cast with amazing standout Cate Hayman as Sally Bowles, the nightclub’s singer. Set…