Performance Preview: Media Literacy Project’s One-Night Extravaganza Keeps The Line Open For Inmates Media Literacy Project’s One-Night Extravaganza Keeps The Line Open For Inmates Rusita Avila says she knows a simple way to keep people out of prison: Let them talk on the phone. “People who are [...] Christie Chisholm \ Aug 02, 2012 Read More
Performance Review: Foreign Becomes Familiar In Adobe Theater’s Men Of Mah Jongg Foreign Becomes Familiar In Adobe Theater’s Men Of Mah Jongg Richard Atkins has been bugging the Alibi for months to see his show. Atkins is like a one-man band of the theater world, [...] Christie Chisholm \ Jun 21, 2012 Read More
Performance Preview: Seven Years Of The Seven From Fusion Theatre Company Tall Entries, Short Plays At Fusion Theatre’s Annual Fest In Tel Aviv a man is falling in love with a prostitute. She is skeptical. As he attempts to woo her, pay her [...] Christie Chisholm \ Jun 07, 2012 Read More
Performance Preview: Wild Dancing West Returns To Vsa North Fourth Art Center Vsa’s Regional Series Returns With Whitman, War And Psychology Meshi Chavez’ We Two Boys bounces between violent, floor-heaving thumps and gentle gestures. Chavez and his dancing partner, Chip Sherman, gradually build an [...] Christie Chisholm \ May 24, 2012 Read More
Navajo Group Fights Aquifer Mine Larry J. King is sick of uranium. After mining the metal in the ’70s and ’80s, he means that literally and figuratively. “We [...] Christie Chisholm \ May 24, 2012 Read More
Performance Review: The Dolls Channel Hbo’s Cosmo-Loving Clique With Sex In The Burque Drag Darlings Sex Up The City The Dolls have returned with a new batch of witty and raunchy one-liners, mimed sex scenes and subversive political commentary. But this time, [...] Christie Chisholm \ May 17, 2012 Read More
Performance Review: The Vortex Lines Up David Mamet’s Soulless Film Industry Farce The Vortex Lines Up David Mamet’s Soulless Film Industry Farce Speed-the-Plow is a play about the coke-addled, fortune-obsessed, power-crazed workings of late-’80s Hollywood, fortified with typical David Mamet misogynistic underpinnings. Also in true [...] Christie Chisholm \ May 10, 2012 Read More
News Profile: Retiring Legislator Fought For Women And The Working Class Retiring Legislator Fought For Women And The Working Class Danice Picraux is a pioneer, but don’t let her catch you saying that. Born, as she says, at the “head of the baby [...] Christie Chisholm \ May 10, 2012 Read More
Performance Review: Adobe Revitalizes N. Richard Nash’s Tale Of Love-Thirsty Life On The Range Adobe Revitalizes N. Richard Nash’s Tale Of Love-Thirsty Life On The Range In a dusty Western town, drought plagues the Currys and their Depression-era cattle ranch. There’s the literal drought, of course, which has made [...] Christie Chisholm \ May 03, 2012 Read More
News Feature: The Aftermath Of The Ny Times Horse-Racing Exposé The Aftermath Of The Ny Times Horse-Racing Exposé The thing that hooked Debbie Coburn into nonprofit horse care: a 50,000-horse-long pee line. That’s the odd name for a controversial practice. Coburn [...] Christie Chisholm \ Apr 26, 2012 Read More
