‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’
Photos and Review by Dana Nollsch Forced to return to the home she left 14 years ago, Nora struggles with
Read morePhotos and Review by Dana Nollsch Forced to return to the home she left 14 years ago, Nora struggles with
Read moreOne of the thinkers forced to think by that catastrophe is a young talented British playwright Lucy Kirkwood. Her play The Children inspired by that nuclear catastrophe premiered in London in 2016 and in New York on Broadway in 2017. It will be performed by the Brüka Theater in Reno opening February 7th and running through February 29th.
Read moreTake Five was performed Friday and Saturday nights, January 12 and 13, 2020, and what a couple of nights they were. It seemed like all the artistic talent in Northern Nevada lined up to help Brüka with its second annual Take Five fundraiser.
Read morePicture this; the date is 1815 in the Frankenstein Castle on the Rhine River in Germany. The family gathers for a holiday celebration, with all the peculiarities you would expect from a gathering at the Frankenstein’s Castle. Add to this the flavor of ballet and the thread of a classic Christmas tale, and you have this year’s “Son of a Buttcracker.”
Read moreCasey is a happy-go-lucky guy who is employed at Cleo’s, a bar in Florida’s Panama City Beach in the panhandle. He earns his living, such as it is, as an Elvis Impersonator. He wears Elvis garb and lip-syncs to Elvis music. His life is about to change. Cleo’s is going down the financial toilet, and so is Casey’s career. Bar owner Eddie, desperate for more revenue, brings in two female impersonators, Tracy and Rexy, to replace him. It looks like he’s out of work.
Read more“Victor Victoria” is a Romeo-and-Juliet story. What’s different about this particular Romeo-and-Juliet story is it comes from the zany, inventive, brilliant imagination of Blake Edwards. Edwards is a master of appearances only semi-attached to reality. He does this superbly, and he does it to music. This musical is about two star crossed lovers in Paris in 1934. It was a time of opulence cheek by jowl with grinding poverty. It was a time of booze and rapidly changing morality. It was the Jazz Age.
Read moreBy Norm Robins Video by Dana Nollsch The Edge Nightclub at the Peppermill was festooned everywhere with lavender. There were
Read moreReview and Photos by Dana Nollsch Analysis by Norm Robins Truth is in the eye of the powerful, and as
Read moreWhat do you see when you look up at the night sky? You may have a bit of a different
Read moreA visionary who is ahead of his time finds no solace from the people around him. “Akhnaton” had a vision of
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