Shotgun Players celebrate the season with murder
In 1969 on a European trip I saw a play in London that had been running continuously there for seventeen...
Bums, Broads and Broadway
Word for Word performs a beautifully choreographed program with three short stories at Z Below this holiday season. And when I say choreographed I mean that in every sense of the word.
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The Christmas season is notorious for old chestnuts, like The Nutcracker and Dickens’ Christmas Carol, It’s a Wonderful Life and White Christmas. “Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer”. OMG. – Christmas carols. They...
The playfulness of silence
Garbed entirely in velvety black unitards, the four performers who currently comprise Mummenschanz delighted an audience of the perpetually young at Cal Performances Zellerbach Hall this past...
A stunning odyssey of horse and rider
With 65 horses, 45 riders and acrobats, 10,000 tons of rock, earth and sand, and a lighting rig to put the Rolling Stones to shame, Odysseo rode into town last...
Storytelling.
It must be one of our oldest social engagements. Children practice it, unwinding long and uninspired retellings of movies they have seen and occasionally...