by Chris Rohmann | Sep 18, 2008 | Stage
By the time I started writing in these pages 22 years ago, the Advocate was already a teenager and the glory days of Valley theater were already over. At least you might get that impression from talking with some of the people who were around back then, when Hamp was...
by Levon Kinney | Sep 18, 2008 | Stage
For those who enjoy a few drinks and some observational humor, the Second Sunday Comedy Series, hosted by Dave Yubruh (pictured), may just fill the void. The Route 63 Roadhouse offers up a hefty dose of comedy, drinks and pub food each month when the club features at...
by Kendra Thurlow | Sep 25, 2008 | Stage
Until the 16th century, ventriloquism (called gastromancy by the ancient Greeks) was closely associated with necromancy: the art of "throwing" one's voice so that it appeared to be coming from another location was often used to make people believe they...
by by Sarah Gibbons | Oct 2, 2008 | Stage
Interdisciplinary theater artist Djola Branner does not write plays. He creates what he refers to as "collage[s] of movement, text and melody." Branner co-founded the acclaimed Pomo Afro Homos (short for Postmodern African-American homosexuals), a prominent...
by Tom Sturm | Oct 9, 2008 | Stage
In an effort to rebuild the Shantigar Foundation’s once-magnificent theater barn, foundation members present two stagings of foundation creator Jean-Claude van Itallie’s The Tibetan Book of the Dead (or How Not to Do It Again). A longtime practitioner of...
