Menager Graces Salons with Music for Millennials by Robert M. Gardner Seated on a tall stool in an intimate 40s era living room on Nob Hill, Australian Michael Menager, American born singer-…
Millennial Notes Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko Takes a Hard Look at FGM by Michael V. Rodriguez Bald, bright-eyed Awino (dazzling Troy Rocket) enjoys many privileges as the Chief's first daughter. Â…
Mary Volmer is the author of two novels: Crown of Dust (Soho Press, 2010) and Reliance, Illinois (Soho Press, 2016). Her essays, reviews, and short stories have appeared in vario…
Jordan Harrison's Poignant Questions Take High-Tech Form by Pamela Feinsilber Jordan Harrison's 2015 Pulitzer-finalist play "Marjorie Prime" opens with a living room conversation between Mar…
Matthew Spangler Reveals Strings behind Shah's Puppet Regime  by Susan Dunn Iran is headline news, and "All the Shah's Men" dives into the 1950s history of how we got to where we are toda…
Aristophanes & Bousel Hit Home with Greek Slapstick by Kim Waldron Do America's raging factions disturb you? Does wealth inequality frustrate you? Do you despair over absurd government l…
Millennial Notes Tony Kushner Wants Us to See the Wires"Why? Â by Svea Vikander Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes I've been thinking about hanging. Well, suspension. Wha…
Suzan-Lori Parks Updates Civil War Slavery and Freedom by Barry David Horwitz In "Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts I, II, III)" Susan-Lori Parks alarms us with a slave named Hero who g…
Millennial Notes Stephen Spinella Slays Us as Prince of Darkness    by Tyler Jeffreys Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes Part 1: "Millennium Approaches" At the Be…
Millennial Notes Rose Oser & Weston Scott's Raw Lyrics Astound by Evelyn Arevalo "Tinderella" weaves more than a typical romance into its tapestry. Our modern princess is looking for mor…
Kushner & Taccone Magically Make "More Life!" by Barry David Horwitz Part One: "Millennium Approaches" More than 25 years ago, I saw the first production of Angels in America at the old …
Jonathan Spector Delivers Comic Send-Up in Facebook Fiasco  by Susan Dunn I had an "Oh No" feeling when I saw the private school parents' board meeting assembled to resolve school issues.…
Bathsheba Doran Titillates Jewish-Black Passions by Barry David Horwitz In "The Mystery of Love and Sex," daddy's little girl Charlotte (bouncy Linda Maria Girón) and her troubled friend …
Krystle Piamonte Sparkles as Vietnamese Child-Refugee by Alisa Hofmann Ten-year-old HÃ (dynamic twenty-something Krystle Piamonte) is forced to flee Saigon with her mom and three brothers…
Jonathan Spector Exposes Private School Pretense by Barry David Horwitz I highly recommend taking BART to Downtown Berkeley, and enjoying "Eureka Day," a hilarious and wise comedy by local p…
Millennial Notes Roy & Walsh Stir Souls with King Lear Mash-Up  by Emily Colby An old woman shuffles onto a bare stage in a beautiful, vintage fur coat and old, raggedy pajama bottom…
Magruder & Meyer Pull Out All the Stops by Cindi Stephan I took my gender fluid teen to "Head Over Heels" because they love musical theater, and I figured I could get them hooked on …
Millennial Notes Hagedorn, Greco Create Masterful Visual Palette by Evelyn Arevalo "The Gangster of Love" by Jessica Hagedorn transports us to the 70s, to follow the outlandish exploits of t…
Cardona, Collins Expose Exploitation on the Street by Robert M. Gardner In "American Jornalero," director Tioni Collins takes a harsh and revealing look at the lives of four day- laborers wh…
David Gerard, Master Magician, Enchants & Seduces by Barry David Horwitz When personable, mysterious, lithe David Gerard re-enters the small stage at PianoFight, after having introducing…
Millennial Notes Christopher Durang's Riff on Chekhov's Entourage by Emily Colby Anton Chekhov, Snow White, Maggie Smith, Voodoo, and a shirtless 20-something. It's like TV's Chopped, where …
Millennial Notes Maureen Langan Dissects U.S. Women's Success by Tyler Jeffreys Maureen Langan's "Daughter of a Garbageman" challenges us to rethink the American path to success. Langan, the…
Tom Jones Remembers the Time of Our Youth by Robert M. Gardner The opening lines of "The Fantasticks" run: "Try to remember the time in September / When life was slow and oh so mellow…""se…
Millennial Notes Shakespeare & Melrose Sell Short on Billionaires by Michael V. Rodriguez At first, like Leo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street, Timon stomps about the stage like a god …
Steve Budd Brings Couples to Life by Ross Callahan "What They Said about Love" sparkles with manic and irrepressible charm. Steve Budd begins with a bang when he transforms himself into seve…