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The cast of Terrence McNally’s Some Men includes (from left) Brandon Finch, P.A Cooley, George Patrick Scott, Scott Cox, Dann Howard, Christopher Morrell, Patrick Michael Dukeman, and Matthew Vierling. This scene from the New Conservatory Theatre Center production takes place in a piano bar adjacent to the Stonewall riots. Photos by Lois Tema
From assignations to [...]
I wrote a feature on New Conservatory Theatre Center’s Some Men by Terrence McNally for today’s San Francisco Chronicle.
You can read it here.
Here are a few pieces of my interview with Mr. McNally that didn’t make it into the newspaper.
In addition to Some Men opening this week at the NCTC, McNally has a few other [...]
Benjamin Pither (left), Glenn Kiser (center) and Harry Breaux are Midwestern men recruited to play French ladies in a late ’20s pageant in Jordan Harrison’s intriguing Act a Lady at the New Conservatory Theatre Center. Photos by Lois Tema
Men in the `Act’ are once, twice, three times a `Lady’«««
A frustrated, god-fearing woman huffs and puffs [...]
Football star Steve (Stephen Foreman, left) meets the fabulously gay student body of Heartsville High in the musical Zanna, Don’t at the New Conservatory Theatre Center. Photos by Lois Tema
Magic, show tunes, teenagers whip up mighty spell in `Zanna’««« ½
Clever, colorful, tuneful and sweet – that’s Zanna, Don’t! in a nutshell.
You’ve heard of Xanadu, well [...]
Stephen Lawson, half of the Canadian duo 2boys.tv, performs in Zona at the New Conservatory Theatre Center
Candian duo drags out, lip synchs through twilight `Zona’«««
Aaron Pollard and Stephen Lawson, who perform under the rubric 2boys.tv are campy performance artists.
They take the art of lip synching out of the gay bar and put it into a [...]
David Kahawaii (left) is JoJo and Carl Danielsen is The Cat in the Hat in the Woodminster Musicals production of Seussical the Musical.
Summer used to be a dead time in Bay Area theater. No longer. Here are some hot shows to check out this weekend and in the weeks to come.
Terrence McNally, the man who [...]
Michael Phillis is one of those young actors who makes you excited you took a chance and saw a young actor.
His debut solo show, D*FACE, at the New Conservatory Theatre Center could have been just another autobiographical solo show/therapy session. But Phillis proved himself to be an engaging performer and intelligent writer. Exiting the theater [...]
Baseball drama aims for more than just naked truth
three stars Play ball!
It’s a shame that Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out is known as “the naked baseball play.”
Sure, there’s more male nudity than in all the previous Tony Award-winning best plays combined. Sure, the front rows have more than their share of gawkers. But at [...]
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