"Pop-Up Magazine" Is You, But Cooler, at Paramount, Oakland by Svea Vikander

Inspiration for Your Next House Party (or TED talk)  by Svea Vikander A "Pop-Up Magazine" event is a cross between a TED Talk and the drunk people in the kitchen at  a good house party…

SOURCE: Theatrius at 5:38am on May 20, 2019☆⚑

"Late Company" Comes with A Hatchet to Bury, at NCTC, S.F. by Svea Vikander

Millennial Notes Jordan Tannahill's Intimate, Piercing Play Burrows Deep      by Svea Vikander Sometimes, I lie in bed awake at night and imagine what might happen if one of m…

SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:35pm on February 6, 2019☆⚑

"Women Laughing Alone with Salad" Gets Salty, at Shotgun Players, Berkeley by Svea Vikander

In a New York City nightclub, Guy watches sultry Meredith (compelling Regina Morones) gyrate and dance. She's grinding, showing off her curves in a futile attempt to shed her heteronormative…

SOURCE: Theatrius at 7:04am on October 23, 2018☆⚑

♦ "Angels in America""Flying on a Thread, at Berkeley Rep by Svea Vikander

Millennial Notes Tony Kushner Wants Us to See the Wires"Why?  by Svea Vikander Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes I've been thinking about hanging. Well, suspension. Wha…

SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:28am on May 9, 2018☆⚑

"Berkeley Dance Project 2018" Takes Us Inside, at Playhouse, U.C., Berkeley by Svea Vikander

CAL Choreographers Move Us Closer Together by Svea Vikander The stage has always been a place where gender can flow a bit more freely and in which collective desires take reign. In four indi…

SOURCE: Theatrius at 7:32pm on February 21, 2018☆⚑

"Partition" Exposes Dirty Math of Colonialism, at Indra's Net, Berkeley by Svea Vikander

Director Bruce Coughran Invites Us to Pity Genius by Svea Vikander and Edward Boyda "Partition" is not a play about math. Director Bruce Coughran has made mathematics into a language and a b…

SOURCE: Theatrius at 5:28pm on December 31, 2017☆⚑

"Participants" Challenges Reviewers' Shit, at TheatreFIRST, Berkeley by Svea Vikander

Jon Tracy Instigates No-Holds-Barred Debate on Race, Class, Gender by Svea Vikander and Edward Boyda In "Participants," twelve short plays by TheatreFIRST at Live Oak Theater, genres spil…

SOURCE: Theatrius at 6:20am on December 12, 2017☆⚑

"Roe" Versus Women, Mothers, Others, at Berkeley Repertory Theatre by Svea Vikander

The play draws us in with the tension of competing narratives: the story as told by polished lawyer Sarah Weddington (Sarah Jane Agnew) who, along with Linda Coffee (a convincingly eccentric…

SOURCE: Theatrius at 6:28am on March 17, 2017☆⚑

Sandra Tsing Loh Smashes Sandcastles at Berkeley Rep by Svea Vikander

In her show "The Madwoman in the Volvo" at the Berkeley Rep, Sandra Tsing Loh tells a story that needs to be told. Accompanied by only two other cast members"the remarkably fluid Caroline Aa…

SOURCE: Theatrius at 11:14pm on December 22, 2016☆⚑

We're Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Shotgun Players, Berkeley by Svea Vikander

George and Martha need an audience to watch them tear each other apart, even if only their sober selves gazing down from a mid-century modern platform in their mid-century modern apartment. …

SOURCE: Theatrius at 1:40pm on October 31, 2016☆⚑

"Frog and Toad": French Food for Thought at Bay Area Children's Theatre by Svea Vikander

"Frog and Toad" (Bay Area Children's Theater) runs weekends until September 25 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. The show sidesteps heavy-handed morality to portray instead that most ethically …

SOURCE: Theatrius at 1:02am on September 10, 2016☆⚑

Svea Vikander by Svea Vikander

Svea Vikander explores untold and necessary topics in print, web, and radio broadcast. She interviews artists and other cultural producers for Arts In Review (Thursdays on KALX90.7FM) …

SOURCE: Theatrius at 8:56am on July 5, 2016☆⚑