Twenty-five years ago at the small Eureka Theatre in downtown San Francisco, Tony Kushner pushed forth the first iteration of a play that would become what many feel is not only a great American play but one of only a handful of theatre works which thoroughly captured the zeitgeist of its time. This week Angels […]
Archives for September 7, 2016
Blackberry Daze debuts at MetroStage (review)
The long-awaited Blackberry Daze has the signature style of a MetroStage production with Thomas W. Jones II at the helm, but the piece also swerves its own way with unusual stylistic touches. Based on the novel Blackberry Days of Summer by Ruby P. Watson, it is a tale about a community in the post- “Great War” […]
Page-to-Stage: Crazy Mary Lincoln, Over Her Dead Body and Alan Sharpe’s Short Plays
Writer’s choice: Page-to-Stage readings from Saturday, September 3, 2016. We asked our writers to report back on plays which they would like to see fully staged. From Debbie Jackson Crazy Mary Lincoln Written by Jan Tranen & Jay Schwandt Directed by Tracey Elaine Chessum Hanging out at the Kennedy Center for ten-hours of Page-to-Stage didn’t feel […]