Posts Tagged ‘Yolanda Franklin’
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 MoreBloody past is prologue in MOXIE Theatre’s quite moving ‘Kibeho’
In 1994 and ’95, genocide claimed at least 800,000 lives in the African nation of Rwanda, and the travesty didn’t materialize without warning. The town of Kibehoe was the site of a Marian apparition to that bloody effect — and MOXIE Theatre has staged a good and relevant entry meant to awaken our sensibilities.
Read MoreNew Village Arts’ Excellent ‘Mockingbird’: Out of the Mouths of Babes
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is a landmark novel, film and play on race relations as the national disgrace they once were. If you go to New Village Arts’ excellent entry, you’ll see why.
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