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In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) – TheaterMania.com
Any play with the word vibrator in the title and Victorian ladies dropping their knickers and leaping onto the orgasm table — is certain to stimulate audiences. Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) , an examination of women’s sexuality in the Victorian
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
There IS a Place for Us — In the Heights is an “Up Side Story”
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”
Bigger, Better, Snazzier: The Exploratorium Reopens | KQED Arts
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:
A Good Man Was Hard To Find – San Francisco Chronicle
“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
KQED The Trojan War: This Time It’s Personal
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
Shotgun Players’ ‘Assassins’ Is a Macabre Revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Musical | East Bay Express
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
Psychotic Mother Belts It Out, Wins Tony. It’s Next to Normal. | KQED Arts
A Broadway pop musical about Electroconvulsive Therapy and suicidal ideation, Next to Normal uses sardonic wit and dark humor to lighten this heartbreaking story of a family devastated by mental illness. Source: Psychotic Mother Belts It Out, Wins Tony. It’s Next to Normal. | KQED
Beastly Canoodling: Valentine’s Day Voyeurism at the Zoo | 7×7
The adults-only sex tour includes racy tid bits of beastly canoodling – plus champagne and covered strawberries. Zoo experts will answer burning questions like: do giraffes prefer Barry White or Beyonce? Is it wrong to give a box of chocolates to a dieting hippo? Are