Millennial Notes Cherríe Moraga Works Our Imaginations to the Limit by Bhavani Bindiganavile and Ben Sloan Cherríe Moraga’s “The Mathematics of Love” toggles between Mexico’s ear…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 06:18AMMillennial Notes Kimber Lee Takes Us Behind the Horrific Headlines by Ben Sloan When we watch “brownsville song (b-Side for tray)” at Shotgun Players, we are tasked with a question: Why …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:21AMMillennial Notes Brian Katz & Kurt Vonnegut Collude on WWII Drama by Ben Sloan 2017 marks a resurgence of Russian collusion, Neo-Nazis, and American nationalism. What marks the dividing …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 07:11AMMillennial Notes Anna Shneiderman Spotlights Oakland Gentrification Crisis by Ben Sloan “Overnight,” a new play by Oakland’s Flight Deck, thrusts “the now” right in your face. Th…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 05:31AMMillennial Notes Sarma Adapts Aghan Novel in Spectacular Style by Ben Sloan American Conservatory Theater has succeeded in putting Khaled Hosseini’s best selling novel on the stage in gran…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:00PMMillennial Notes Albee’s Cold War Couple Turns Hot by Benjamin K. Sloan “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1962)—in the Shotgun Players wonderful new Repertory Season—take…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:20AMMillennial Notes Black Lives, White Rules by Benjamin K. Sloan Before the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of African Americans were living in the South as “free” people—a status that …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 12:00AMMillennial Notes Tom Stoppard’s Battle Royale: Faith vs. Science by Benjamin K. Sloan Many millennials have a tendency to assert their “truth,” impatiently, like angsty preachers w…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:53PMA Depression Era Play Takes Us Back to the Future by Benjamin K. Sloan I wish that all people of my generation, ages 18-25, could watch Berkeley Rep’s “It Can’t Happen Here.” Maybe w…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 12:31PMDressed-Down Tragedy Exposes Modern Misogyny by Benjamin K. Sloan Eric Ting’s bare stage “Othello” at Cal Shakes modernizes Elizabethan issues from 500 years ago for the U.S. in 2016. …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:20AMSpace Race vs. Galactic Disaster in the Mission by Benjamin K. Sloan & Barry David Horwitz As soon as the play “Speed of Light” by Sci-Fi writer Bella Poynton begins, with its simple…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:41AMSpace Age Melt-Down of Sex & Treats by Benjamin K. Sloan As a recent transplant from L.A., entering my junior year at CAL, on Saturday I ventured into “The City,” the urban playgroun…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 06:45PMGet Down and Dirty with John Leguizamo by Benjamin K. Sloan I came up from LA a couple of weeks ago looking for a place to live, as I enter my junior year at Cal. I’m going to major in Eng…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 05:36PMBenjamin K. Sloan is an incoming junior at UC Berkeley. A transfer student from Santa Monica College in Los Angeles, Ben is an aspiring thespian and writer of any medium. He will be studyi…
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