Airea D. Matthews, Emma Copley Eisenberg, Nikil Saval, Warren C. Longmire, Jacqueline Goldfinger, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, and Greg Pizzoli come through with book recs this holiday season. by Julia Shipley, For The Inquirer Dec 19, 2022 Philadelphia is packed with literary talent. We chased after some of the city’s finest to ask what projects they’re working...
Silicon Valley TheatreWorks’ ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Directed by Jeffrey Lo, is a kick in the plants
Forget the poinsettias and celebrate this holiday season with an Audrey II. Perennial stage favorite “Little Shop of Horrors” is blooming in the Bay Area for a second time this year (Another production was mounted at the Berkeley Playhouse in the spring) at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley), and for good reason. With its pop-culture savvy...
It’s finally Oakland director Dawn Monique Williams’ moment, and it’s about time
At a recent “Two Trains Running” rehearsal at Marin Theatre Company, director Dawn Monique Williams led with conspiratorial joy. Oakland theater director Dawn Monique Williams has two tattoos taken from Shakespeare. One is the beloved “Twelfth Night” opening line: “If music be the food of love, play on.” Another is the motto from Shakespeare’s...
The Emmett Till Trilogy by Ifa Bayeza
Trailers by Mecca FilmworksBy Ifa Bayeza, Directed by Talvin Wilks...
A haunting portrait of Emmett Till comes full circle in ‘Till Trilogy’ by Ifa Bayeza
Mosaic Theater Company stages all three of Ifa Bayeza’s history-based plays. The most intriguing is the second part, “Benevolence.” Review by Celia Wren for The Washington Post. In a chillingly lyrical moment in Ifa Bayeza’s play “Benevolence,” a guilty Mississippi woman sees a vision in a burning cloth. It’s 1955, and this White 20-something...