Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Millennial Notes Anaïs Mitchell Touches Our Hearts, Updates Musical Myths by Jordan Freed A penetrating trombone rips into a brassy solo and Hermes (seductive Levi Kreis), our divine narrat…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 02:41PMMonday, June 6, 2022
Karen Zacarías Updates Shakespeare with Colonial California Clashes by Barry David Horwitz and Jordan Freed We’re immediately enraptured by the chemistry between Romeo and Juliet. Revelat…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:31PMTuesday, March 8, 2022
Alyosha Zim Unfolds Exciting Jewish-Buddhist Enigma by Jordan Freed & Barry David Horwitz “Red Winged Blackbird” transcends a debate between Old World Judaism and New Age Buddhism. W…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:15AMMonday, February 28, 2022
Millennial Notes Jack Thorne’s Complex Tale Features Stellar Cast & Fireworks by Jordan Freed I was three years old when the first Harry Potter book was published. I remember begging m…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:21AMSaturday, November 27, 2021
Millennial Notes Sondheim & Lapine Brew Powerful Musical Magic by Jordan Freed Everyone I know either loves “Into the Woods” or hates it. When I saw it as a teenager I hated it. On…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:05PMSunday, October 24, 2021
Millennial Notes Tim Cowbury Provides Bitter Insights into Refugee Crisis by Jordan Freed Usually, a Kafkaesque dive into the absurd world of the political asylum system would absolutely be …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 01:07AMMonday, September 13, 2021
Millennial Notes Shakespeare Kicks Off New Season of Fantastic Live Theater by Jordan Freed Watching “The Winter’s Tale” at Cal Shakes feels like witnessing two prodigious trapeze ar…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 07:44PMSaturday, August 8, 2020
Reflections Chaim Topol’s Tevye Proves We Can Change by Jordan Freed A few days ago, I noticed that Netflix was suggesting the 1971 film of the 1964 musical “Fiddler on the Roof.” In t…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 09:07PMMonday, June 8, 2020
Reflections Alison Bechdel Wittily Celebrates Coming Out by Jordan Freed The hardest part of watching Alison Bechdel, Lisa Kron, and Jeanine Tesori’s Tony award winning “Fun Home” for …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:30AMSaturday, May 2, 2020
Millennial Notes Nick Dear Reanimates Mary Shelley for Our Time by Jordan Freed Watching “Frankenstein” in 2020, I see Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Jeff Bezos—all the reckless men who…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 09:31PMTuesday, April 14, 2020
Millennial Notes Robert Kelley Spotlights Austen’s Wit, Wonderfully by Jordan Freed I have an embarrassing confession to make: I had never read or seen Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:55PMSaturday, March 7, 2020
Millennial Notes Sedef Ecer Depicts Social Outcasts in Urban Slum by Jordan Freed Turkish playwright Sedef Ecer and translator Evren Odcikin bring us a fascinating story, shedding light on I…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 02:58AMSunday, February 2, 2020
Millennial Notes Tony Hale Elevates Will Eno’s Struggling Script by Jordan Freed You may be familiar with “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch,” a Carnegie Mellon professor diagnosed w…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:58PMWednesday, January 29, 2020
Millennial Notes David Lindsay-Abaire’s Sharp-Edged Seniors Act Up by Jordan Freed Working at a retirement home for a year, I saw my fair share of squabbles between residents, ranging from…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:51AMThursday, December 26, 2019
Millennial Notes Whitty & Magruder Challenge Love & Gender Norms by Jordan Freed Does it make a lick of sense to combine Sir Philip Sidney’s 400-year-old pastoral romance Arcadia w…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 05:44PMTuesday, December 17, 2019
Millennial Notes Caryl Churchill Wonders, “Who Are the Witches, Now?” by Jordan Freed At Shotgun Players, the feminist fury of Caryl Churchill’s “Vinegar Tom” cuts through the air …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 07:24PMThursday, November 21, 2019
Millennial Notes Robert Townsend Reveals Unique Hollywood Success by Jordan Freed Throughout his solo show “Living the Shuffle,” Robert Townsend recounts a touching journey with his fa…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 11:18PMFriday, November 8, 2019
Millennial Notes Bekah Brunstetter Whips Up Carolina Confection by Jordan Freed In mixing up “The Cake,” Bekah Brunstetter whips the batter right up to the edge of dramatic, breakthrou…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:44PMTuesday, October 29, 2019
Millennial Notes Lisa B. Thompson: New Stories for Black Women by Jordan Freed “Single Black Female” is at its strongest and funniest when the two actors, Tanika Baptiste and Paige M…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 06:19PMMonday, October 21, 2019
Millennial Notes Lloyd Suh Lays Bare American Cruelties to Immigrants by Jordan Freed By the end of “The Chinese Lady,” Afong Moy (stunning Rinabeth Apostol) has all but abandoned her op…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:24AMWednesday, October 9, 2019
Millennial Notes Eugene O’Neill Prophesies Our Modern Opioid Crisis by Jordan Freed A terrific cellist, Alexander Kort, provides a backdrop of dark, ominous notes. Offstage, father, son, …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:51AMWednesday, October 2, 2019
Millennial Notes Alex Timbers & Michael Friedman Bring Punk to Politics by Jordan Freed It’s amazing how good Punk Rock looks in 19th Century U.S.! As Andrew Jackson (ferocious James G…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:09PMSaturday, September 28, 2019
Millennial Notes Caryl Churchill & Tamilla Woodard Transport Thatcher to Today by Jordan Freed “She’s not going to make it.” A hard realization for a devoted “pull yourself up …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 12:39PMTuesday, August 20, 2019
Millennial Notes Kevin Blake Enchants with Charm & Wit by Jordan Freed Halfway through the show, Kevin Blake places an envelope onstage; he claims it contains step-by-step breakdowns of …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 05:54PMTuesday, July 30, 2019
Millennial Notes Carol Lashof Gives Voices to Salem’s Silenced Victims by Jordan Freed Descending the narrow staircase into La Val’s Subterranean Theater feels right for the eerie mood o…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 08:23PMThursday, May 30, 2019
Millennial Notes William Inge Dangles Liberation for Doomed Americans by Jordan Freed “Come Back, Little Sheba,” an iconic 50s play, desperately wants to confront repression on several f…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:46AMWednesday, May 22, 2019
Millennial Notes Susannah Martin Makes Shakespeare’s Teenage Tragedy Ours by Jordan Freed As 21st Century teenagers face clockwork killing sprees, the ghosts of Romeo and Juliet take on fr…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 06:20PMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Millennial Notes Lynne Kaufman & Lorri Holt Deliver a Poetic Eulogy by Jordan Freed At The Marsh, Sylvia Plath has a chance to speak again, posing challenging questions. What we gain is …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 05:41AMTuesday, May 7, 2019
Joshua Harmon Toys with Marriage & Materialism by Jordan Freed & Barry David Horwitz Gawky, self-conscious Jordan Berman (Kyle Cameron), a gay ad copywriter, is trapped by his own ne…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 01:03AMThursday, April 11, 2019
Millennial Notes Daldry & Martin Stage Stunning Immigrant Stories by Jordan Freed Walking into the totally transformed Curran theater, we are struck by the musty smell of plywood and saw…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 12:01AMTuesday, March 26, 2019
Millennial Notes Ira Levin Deconstructs Murder Mysteries, Hilariously by Jordan Freed Early on in “Deathtrap,” a man seeking help moving a body shouts, “What’s done is done, I don’…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 09:38PM 
