UPDATED: I love live play readings. To me, they’re like a super-special version of listening to a book-on-CD in your car. It’s exciting that StageWorks Fresno and The New Ensemble are partnering in Sunday afternoon’s installment of the popular Hot… Read more »
I’m busy putting together my Top 20 Cultural Events of the Year, which will appear in the Jan. 4 Spotlight section. This is a tough exercise, believe me. Each year I tell people that for purposes of this list, I’m use… Read more »
I know. Everyone’s busy. You have every intention to get out to see a limited-run play, but things get in the way. Before you know it, it’s gone. I’m talking about StageWorks Fresno’s “The Normal Heart,” which is in its third… Read more »
The injustice at the core of Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart” isn’t as raw today as when the play came out in 1985. Some events depicted in Larry Kramer’s drama, set early in the AIDS crisis, had occurred just a year… Read more »
StageWorks Fresno opens Larry Kramer’s searing play “The Normal Heart” Friday at the Fresno Art Museum’s Bonner Auditorium. With an acclaimed 2011 revival on Broadway and a star-studded HBO movie earlier this year, this is a hot title. Look for… Read more »
The view is grand from “The Mountaintop.” The StageWorks Fresno production of Katori Hall’s provocative play about the imagined last night of Martin Luther King, Jr. is deftly staged and strongly acted. Director Joel C. Abels crafts a powerhouse production that… Read more »
StageWorks Fresno on Friday opens a play that recently attracted a lot of attention when it appeared on Broadway in 2011: “The Mountaintop” by Katori Hall. It’s a fictional account of the last night of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, set in… Read more »
The StageWorks Fresno cabaret performance is always one of the highlights of the summer theater season. It’s your chance to see performers in the current StageWorks production, “[title of show],” strut their stuff out of character. Plus there are other… Read more »
I’ve seen “[title of show]” three times now. The first time, back in 2006, was the original Off-Broadway version at the Vineyard Theatre. The next two times have been thanks to StageWorks Fresno, which produced this trippy, self-referential musical about… Read more »
It’s been four years since StageWorks Fresno kicked off its inaugural season with “[title of show],” the trippy musical about a group of friends creating a musical. Director Joel Abels returns with a faithful recreation of his 2010 hit production,… Read more »
