For Examiner.com. By Charles Kruger. Director Domenique Lozano's production of Sarah Ruhl's "Orlando" (adapted from the novel by Virginia Woolf) is full of all manner of delights, chief of which is Stephanie DeMott in the title role of the jaded young nobleman, lover of Queen Elizabeth, who...
For KQED Arts. By Sam Hurwitt. Aug 20, 2013. Soren Santos and Stephanie DeMott in Orlando Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando is a curious concoction. Light years away from the slow-moving, stream-of-consciousness meditations of To the Lighthouse, Orlando is the playful, satirical tale of a young Elizabethan...
By Pat Craig, Correspondent, San Jose Mercury News. Playwright Sarah Rule is a charming trickster, particularly in her adaptation of Virginia Woolf's, "Orlando," now playing at Berkeley's Live Oak Theatre over the weekend. The characters she creates careen across the stage like so many super-balls, and draw...
by Robert Hurwitt. Published 5:06 pm, Sunday, August 18, 2013 Simplicity is magical in "Orlando." That's as true for Sarah Ruhl's lovingly crafted adaptation of Virginia Woolf's time-bending, gender-shifting novel as it is for Woolf's mesmerizing prose. In the TheatreFirst "Orlando," which opened Friday, the simple directness of...
(By Pat Craig, Correspondent) TheatreFirst's production of David Mamet's "Oleanna," the first in its intimate new digs at the Berkeley City Club, begins with the crackle and intensity of a wildfire and ratchets up from there. "There ain't no good guys. There ain't no bad guys," the old...
(By Rachel Swan) TheatreFIRST czar Michael Storm wrote in a recent email: "You will NOT see this from me again. Mark my words." He was responding to a reviewer's genuine adulation ("I have no idea how you balance artistic directing with acting, but I'm endlessly impressed"). It...
This is the 20th Anniversary of Mr. Mamet’s seminal work about higher education, sexual politics and power in America. Oleanna runs April 21 – May 13, 2012, at the Berkeley City Club Oleanna, a powerful two-character drama by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, is TheatreFIRST’s initial...
The show opens May 27th at The Marion E. Greene Black Box Theatre, 531 19th Street, on the ground floor of The Fox Oakland Building. Oakland, Calif., May 1, 2011 – TheatreFIRST today announced that award-winning playwright Julie Marie Myatt will attend the opening weekend...
The third show of TheatreFIRST’S 10/11 season will open May 27th at The Marion E. Greene Black Box Theatre, 531 19th Street, on the ground floor of The Fox Oakland Building. Oakland, Calif., April 1, 2011 – TheatreFIRST today announced that Domenique Lozano will direct...
The second show of TheatreFIRST’s 10/11 season will open January 28 at The Marion E. Greene Black Box Theatre, 531 19th Street, on the ground floor of The Fox Oakland Building. Oakland, Calif., December 21, 2010 -- Michael Barrett Austin and Danielle Levin lead an...
