Saturday, August 19, 2017
Millennial Notes CherrÃe Moraga Works Our Imaginations to the Limit  by Bhavani Bindiganavile and Ben Sloan CherrÃe Moraga's "The Mathematics of Love" toggles between Mexico's early…
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Millennial 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 does…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 1, 2017
Millennial 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 07:11AM[SHARE]Friday, April 21, 2017
Millennial 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. The Flight…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 05:31AM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2017
Millennial 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 grand …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:00PM[SHARE]Friday, December 9, 2016
Millennial 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"takes us o…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Millennial 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 consti…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Millennial 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 who…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:53PM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2016
A 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 we are in…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 12:31PM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2016
Dressed-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. Shakes…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:20AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 4, 2016
Space 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, lo…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 25, 2016
Space 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 playground of…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 06:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Get 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 Engli…
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Benjamin 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 stud…
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