187 stories by "Karen D'Souza"
Once more unto the breach! Hitting the road for Ashland tomorrow. My annual OSF marathon begins, officially launching SUMMER vacation, if you are a theater critic and your idea of down time …
New play maven Meredith McDonough is leaving TheatreWorks to become associate artistic director at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. The gifted McDonough ran the troupe's prestigious …
Terrence McNally’s “Corpus Christi,” often dubbed the gay Jesus play, has been sparking controversy since it debuted in New York 14 years ago. Now a new documentary about a…
The explosive Iraq war drama “Black Watch,” staged by the National Theatre of Scotland, and the world premiere of the hip-hop opera “Stuck Elevator” will headline the…
Forty of the country’s hottest playwrights will converge at Berkeley Rep’s new summer theater lab at the Ground Floor, the troupe’s Center for the Creation and Development …
From his Amazon riff “21 Dog Years” to his Apple expose “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” Mike Daisey has always had his finger on the pulse of dotco…
Mojitos all around! You are cordially invited to our Twitter Happy Hour tomorrow from 4 p.m. to 5 in the Twitterverse. We’ll be chatting about “Hunger Games” and “Ame…
The world premiere of the ’80s flashback “Diner” musical and the Broadway revival of the tap-happy “Anything Goes” are among the highlights of the 2012-13 SHN s…
Jensen Ackles, FTW, baby! Now, a theater critic may well have no business beseeching fangirls to vote in a TV CRUSH contest but a fangirl’s work is never done! Smitten as I am with Jen…
Live long and prosper, people. Trekkies and other assorted devotees of the Shatnerian oeuvre (from Captain Kirk to Denny Crane) won’t want to miss my Storify on William Shatner here. T…
Bottoms up! It’s always cocktail hour somewhere so join all of us A&E critics at the MERC and BANG for our very first Twitter Happy Hour today at 4. Want to plug a new project, dis…
The Shat hits the fan! William Shatner will boldly go where he has never gone before in the one-man show "Shatner's World: We Just Live In It" The Canadian-born pop culture icon who has rein…
Rajiv Joseph's "The North Pool" is the winner of the 2011 Glickman Award. Joseph, a master craftsman nominated for the Pulitzer for the Iraq drama "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," which st…
Pondering the best and brightest and bombs of the theatrical year made me realize how many flat-out wonderful folks I’ve gotten to interview on this best-of-all-possible beats recently…
Top Ten Theatrical Events for 2011 Top Ten Lists are notoriously thorny to pin down and this year was harder than ever. 2011 was dominated by headline-grabbing star turns from the lik…
The unstoppable Eve Ensler is best known as an activist and playwright who has parlayed her tremendous success with “The Vagina Monologues” into a formidable one-woman political …
Now, no one is a bigger Princess Leia fan than yours truly. I actually think the Cinnabun hairdo is attractive and I used to coo to my pet cat Robie in honor of the scifi fairytale…
Summer’s lease hath all too short a date, indeed. I can hardly believe that the summer Shakespeare season is at an end. For me it’s not really summer until the annual roadtrip to…
It’s not easy being green, not to mention foul-smelling, bad-tempered and crotchety, but “Shrek” still managed to steal the hearts of the next generation. To many in the lu…
Long before John Malkovich made his name as one of the most versatile and ingenious actors in Hollywood, he was a star of the American stage. Now, I may be biased because I am a theater crit…
Mike Daisey stole my Imac! Well, not literally maybe but the gifted monologuist has severely undercut the bliss I used to feel clicking and whooshing around the piece of electronic…
Crushing news today that John Malkovich, an actor I have ever so long venerated as a truly insightful artist as well as an uniquely idiosyncratic character, will NOT be giving interviews abo…
You are cordially invited to spend a few hours basking in the glow of Rita Moreno. Tony Taccone’s lovely tribute to the star, “Life Without Makeup,” will delight anyone any…
The famously elusive Edward Albee, arguably the greatest American playwright of his generation, made the scene at the Aurora Theatre Company’s sublime revival of his 1967 Pulitzer winn…
Calling all Guilty Ones! This is a heads-up that “Spring Awakening” is about to bloom in San Jose once more. Only this time it’s not the national tour we’re talking a…
