Posts Tagged ‘Beth’
User-Friendliness Is Key To NCR’s Fine ‘Random World’
There’s a universe of forces for good in daily life, and playwright Steven Dietz says most of them go over our heads. North Coast Repertory Theatre’s excellent mount of his ‘This Random World,’ and his own deft and user-friendly hand, combine to show us he’s right.
Read MoreMOXIE Theatre’s ‘Mud Blue Sky’ Is Pretty Funny, But…
Three aging, frustrated flight attendants are alone in a hotel room with a 17-year-old drug dealer. That conjures up all sorts of images, and ‘Mud Blue Sky’ author Marisa Wegrzyn gets kudos for not stating the obvious (i.e., going there). Her play, the current MOXIE Theatre entry, is really funny, too — the problem is that you might wonder what it’s all for.
Read MoreUCSD’s tragic, intense ‘A Lie of the Mind’ revisits ‘The Twilight Zone’
Playwright Sam Shepard apparently thinks the individualism and romance that characterized the national soul is a thing of the past. His lamentable characters have reams of stories that explain this sorry state–and with UCSD’s fine ‘A Lie of the Mind,’ they’re in rare form.
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