43 stories by "Jordan Freed"
Millennial Notes Robert Townsend Reveals Unique Hollywood Success by Jordan Freed "originally reviewed in Theatrius on November 21, 2019 Throughout his solo show "Living the Shuffle," Ro…
Millennial Notes Robert Townsend Reveals Unique Hollywood Success by Jordan Freed " reviewed in 2019. Throughout his solo show "Living the Shuffle," Robert Townsend recounts a touching j…
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 narr…
Karen ZacarÃas 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…
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. We me…
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 my …
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. Â Only…
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 …
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 artist…
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 the pre…
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 me was…
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 watch…
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. …
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…
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 with term…
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 a…
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 wit…
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 like a kni…
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 fait…
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, breakthrough…
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…
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 optimi…
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, …
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 Gra…
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 by the…