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Continue reading →: Adaire searches for Lorca’s passion digitally in A.C.T.’s ‘Blood Wedding’American Conservatory Theater’s head of voice Christine Adaire has spent her entire career teaching students the power of organic sound. A Designated Master Linklater Voice teacher, the method developed by famed acting teacher and vocal coach Kristin Linklater who passed away in June, Adaire is obsessed with the breath, timbre…
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Review: The honesty of Gomez comes through in ‘Spanking Machine’
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Continue reading →: Review: The honesty of Gomez comes through in ‘Spanking Machine’In a particularly fraught moment in the story during solo performer Marga Gomez’s 13th newest show “Spanking Machine,” now coming your way every Sunday via Zoom through Oct. 11, the WiFi went out on her live feed. Gomez soldiered on without the knowledge that her hard work was being played…
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Continue reading →: Margo Magic: New AD Hall grabs the reins of historic Hansberry TheatreIf things were to have gone a different way, we might be talking about Margo Hall, one of the greatest dentists in history. The Detroit native roamed the hallowed grounds of the University of Michigan as a young undergrad in pursuit of a dental degree. As she got deeper into…
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Bay Area theatre – show this thread
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Continue reading →: Bay Area theatre – show this threadThe Bay Area’s theatre scene has been heating up a bit after five months of darkness and zoomy zooms. While the star of 2020 has been the video conferencing platform and all its boxes that shrink based on attendance, theatre artists have turned Zoom into a theatre that seats hundreds…
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Continue reading →: Corrie battles the digital to accentuate the personal in Pear Theatre’s ‘Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue’The year 2020 has forced theatre artists to tap into the deepest recesses of their creativity, all while navigating fears and anxiety over a global pandemic. Whether it is looking at ways to utilize parking lots as the next great theatre space or turning a teleconferencing tool into full blown…
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Continue reading →: Billingslea shares a million reasons to support Black theatre through the Juneteenth Justice Theatre ProjectSuit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so o’erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as ’twere the…
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Continue reading →: Happy birthday, dear Jeffrey: Lo and friends gather on a ‘Bench’ to raise funds for Bay Area theatre companiesIt was a table read like no other. And it will be a birthday like no other as well. “Jeffrey Lo’s Birthday Bench Project,” the eighth Bench Project production yet the first to be pre-recorded digitally, will be presented Friday, May 22 at 7 pm at Lo’s website and on…
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After Covid-19 ended live programming, BAWTF found a new groove
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Continue reading →: After Covid-19 ended live programming, BAWTF found a new grooveThis was the time of year when Susan Shay was going to relax a bit. The Bay Area Women’s Theatre Festival (BAWTF), the ambitious project which was ready to amplify theatre written, created, produced and directed by women and non-binary artists, would have been in full swing. More than 3,000…
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Continue reading →: A.C.T.’s fantastic ‘Gloria’ explores who can rightfully own a tragedyNOTE: The final live performance of American Conservatory Theater’s production of “Gloria” took place on Wednesday, March 11th before being canceled from Covid-19 policies. The show, along with the company’s production of “Toni Stone” are available for streaming through April 5. A link is posted at the bottom of this…
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Some of the strangest few days in the theatrical Bay
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Continue reading →: Some of the strangest few days in the theatrical BayThe coronavirus has brought upon unprecedented disruptions for every walk of society. And while the dangers are to be taken seriously, some might argue that this pandemic makes going to a play a bit of a trivial act. Maybe. But what is not trivial is the fact that the play…
David John Chávez
Bay Area theater critic/reporter, Executive Chair – American Theatre Critics/Journalists Association, Two-time Pulitzer Prize for Drama jurist (’22-’23). Follow me on socials and say hi! #hellatheatre
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