Christina Anderson’s luminous and wise the ripple, the wave that carried me home (now at the Goodman in a coproduction with Berkeley Rep, where it played in fall 2022) unfolds in mesmerizing capillary waves of memory, selective and otherwise. (“This country is built on selective memory,” one character observes while watching the Rodney King trial […]
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Lead in the water
I hardly ever start reviews this way, but trust me: stop reading this and hop online to get tickets for Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s cullud wattah, now in its local premiere at Victory Gardens under Lili-Anne Brown’s direction. It’s a profound, poetic, scabrous (and beautifully acted) piece of theater that hits at so many levels that I […]
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Babes With Blades gives us a visceral, devastating Othello
Just in case you had any doubts that Shakespeare was still relevant.
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Crumbs From the Table of Joy and Flyin’ West resonate together in separate productions
And together they provide two perspectives on black women’s lives, written by black women.
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Ike Holter’s latest, The Light Fantastic, is darkly playful
And Jackalope gives it a consummate storefront staging.