Anna Mwalagho’s one-woman show about being Black in the US brings power to comedy
Anna Mwalagho used the classic comedic device of repetition to hook this same sentence into multiple jokes in her one-woman show.
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Category Archives: Theater
‘Latin History for Morons’ coaches energy, inspiration at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre
The Oakland audience’s endless enthusiasm, as well as Leguizamo’s own crowd-riffing charisma, elevated the show’s rapid-fire syllabus into a masterclass.
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The Daughters takes a loving look at evolving queer community
Through the characters of Shorty, Griff and Jefferson, the play also zeros in on the exclusionary transphobia that persists in some areas of the lesbian movement.
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BareStage’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ thrives in magical excellence
Director Benjamin Arsenault treated the content with a close eye and sensitivity that allowed the production to be at once true to the original text and a slight, but effective, modernization.
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Lessons of representation in ‘Latin History for Morons’: An interview with John Leguizamo
An actor with almost 40 years of experience in the field, playing every role from Shakespearean villains to video game action stars, Leguizamo is vocal regarding the contributions Latinx individuals have made toward the entertainment industry.
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42nd Street Moon’s ‘Hot Mikado’ does the best it can with an outdated musical
It is hard to critique the cultural insensitivity of the story without tracing it back to its original source, since most of the structural elements come from Gilbert and Sullivan.
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‘Let’s Kill Jessica’ at PianoFight is an episode of ‘The Office’ in dark timeline
“Let’s Kill Jessica” is a gloriously female-driven production that, thankfully, isn’t solely focused on the fact that its leading characters are all female.
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Actress Lorri Holt commands the stage in ‘Who Killed Sylvia Plath’
Performing the role of Sylvia Plath is Bay Area actress Lorri Holt, who walks on stage in a medium-length skirt and blue cardigan like the classic ‘50s housewife that Slyvia Plath was expected to be.
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‘Great Wave’ leaves audiences at sea with murky central theme, takeaways.
To the show’s detriment, the themes of cultural confluence become utterly lost in a sea of diverging plot points.
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Taking Coleridge at face value is albatross around Z Space’s neck
Any exigency of the current climate catastrophe that the show might have set out to achieve, however, loses potency in the overwhelming cheesiness of its delivery.
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