Movies: Black Fiction, Black History
What a great couple of months it’s been for movies about the African-American experience. The African-American Film Critics Association calls 2016 …
Category Archives: Theatre
My Mañana Comes: Back of the House on Stage
On the enthusiastic recommendation of a friend, four of us collected ourselves to see the Marin Theater Company’s presentation of …
Holding on to the Music in WW II London
Bach, Grieg and World War II would seem to make an odd trio if you went no further than scanning …
War Horse: War Horror on the Stage
I have to admit I was knocked out by the staging of War Horse at San Francisco’s Curran Theater. I …
Walt Whitman and Democracy: Theatre
For those of you in the SF Bay Area a couple of live theater events are worth your attention. Last …
Theatre: After The War
Phillip Kan Gotanda is a San Francisco playwright so it was particularly interesting to see his “After the War,” about …