A Wicked Writer – TheaterMania.com
Novelist Gregory Maguire discusses the political inspiration for the hit musical and how he expects it to fare in an Obama nation. Source: A Wicked Writer – TheaterMania.com
Novelist Gregory Maguire discusses the political inspiration for the hit musical and how he expects it to fare in an Obama nation. Source: A Wicked Writer – TheaterMania.com
With less gritty realism and attention to societal ills than West Side Story, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s contemporary immigrant story, In the Heights, gets by on its wits and rhythms. Source: There IS a Place for Us — In the Heights is an “Up Side Story”
In addition to my career in journalism, I served as publicist and media relations consultant for a boutique hotel in the Santa Cruz wine country. In this capacity, I communicated with Bay Area and national editors and writers and tailored story ideas to their
A best-of DVD of “Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist,” the understated, animated cult favorite that featured top comic guest stars, was released this month. Source: The Best of ‘Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist’ on DVD – The New York Times
The new Exploratorium opens Thursday, April 17, 2013 at Pier 15 along the Embarcadero. Familiar exhibits combine with a new focus on the science of the Bay, with plenty of touching, tinkering, and interactive investigating for curious visitors of any age. Source: Bigger, Better, Snazzier:
“Why are men so stingy with their sperm?” I griped in passing to the guy next to me at the rehearsal dinner before a friend’s wedding. (They say seating arrangements at a wedding are critical, but this, I’m sure, was unprecedented.) Up to this point
7×7 is the San Francisco Bay Area’s daily go-to for the best restaurants, shops, cocktails, live music, weekend happenings and more. Source: Opening Day of Sailing Season: Rich Sailor Man, Poor Sailor Man | 7×7
ONE morning last month, just before a filming of the ABC television show ”Ellen,” Tracy Newman, a consulting producer, asked the show’s star, Ellen DeGeneres, to autograph her copy of the script. It was the script for the heavily anticipated and highly publicized April 30
In Berkeley Rep’s An Iliad, the antiquated story of the Trojan War is dusted off and the ancient tradition of the storyteller is reanimated. Source: The Trojan War: This Time It’s Personal
Staged as as a grotesque carnival, the production trots out a murderous lineup of sad sacks and misguided misfits who fired on Presidents Lincoln through Reagan. The play asks the question: “Why’da do it?” Source: Shotgun Players’ ‘Assassins’ Is a Macabre Revival of Stephen