Margo Hall gets the `Blues’
You’re forgiven if you didn’t know quite how amazing Margo Hall is. If you’re a regular Bay Area theatergoer, you already know that Hall is an extraordinary actor. Last year, for instance, she...
View ArticleReview: `Sonny’s Blues’
Opened Jan. 8, 2008,Lorraine Hansberry Theatre Word for Word scores with jazzy Blues three [1/2] stars Musical and muscular First we see snapshots, glimpses of lives we have yet to understand. And we...
View ArticleTheater review: `The Story’
The cast of SF Playhouse’s taut drama The Story includes, from left, Craig Marker, Ryan Peters, Kathryn Tkel and Halili Knox. Photos by Zabrina Tipton Racial politics, lies, ambition and the rest of...
View ArticleHip-hop theater gets Luckey
For a long time, Oakland activist and hip-hop theater artist Ariel Luckey (above, photo by Amanda Salzman) suffered the same social, cultural and historical amnesia that afflicts many of us. But he...
View ArticleIntersection breaks walls, audience follows
EXTENDED THROUGH APRIL 3! Pictured from left: Daveed Diggs, Traci Tolmaire, Margo Hall and Dwight Huntsman in the world premiere of Chinaka Hodge’s Mirrors in Every Corner at Intersection for the Arts....
View ArticleBe mindful of Aurora’s Trouble
Margo Hall is Wiletta Mayer in Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind at the Aurora Theatre Company. Photos by David Allen If only playwright Alice Childress could see Margo Hall’s performance in her 1955...
View ArticleUndine undone or finding fabulous in Fabulation
Margo Hall stars in Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation or The Re-Education of Undine, the season-ending production at the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. Below: Hall with Rudy Guerrero. Photos by Moanalani Jeffrey...
View ArticleSeven Guitars, ably played
Marc Damon Johnson (left), Tobie Windham (center) and L. Peter Callender star in the Marin Theatre Company production of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars. Below: Shinelle Azoroh (right) is Ruby, who...
View ArticleGettin’ to the git in Cal Shakes’ glorious Spunk
The cast of Spunk at Cal Shakes shakes it up. Below: Omozé Idehenre and Aldo Billingslea in the final story of the trilogy, “The Gilded Six Bits.” Photos by www.kevinberne.com Zora Neale Hurston...
View ArticleYo, Mofo! SF Playhouse tips a mighty fine Hat
Jackie (Gabriel Marin, far left) and Cousin Julio (Rudy Guerrero, left) visit sponsor Ralph D. (Carl Lumbly, right) and his wife Victoria (Margo Hall, center) to discuss suspected misdeeds in the San...
View ArticleA Night to remember as Cal Shakes opens season
Dena Martinez (far left) as Sacajawea, Sharon Lockwood (left) as William Clark, Dan Hiatt (center) as Meriwether Lewis and Sean San José as Juan José in California Shakespeare Theater’s American...
View ArticleCal Shakes’ lukewarm take on Winter’s Tale
L. Peter Callender (far left), Tyee Tilghman, Margo Hall (center), and Christopher Michael Rivera deal with unexplained jealousy in Cal Shakes’ production of A Winter’s Tale, directed by Patricia...
View ArticleWilson’s Fences hits hard at Marin Theatre Co.
The cast of Marin Theatre Company’s Fences by August Wilson includes (from left) Eddie Ray Jackson as Cory, Margo Hall as Rose and and Carl Lumbly as Troy Maxson. Below: Lumbly and Hall are joined by...
View ArticleHansberry’s Sun blazes brightly in Cal Shakes opener
The cast of California Shakespeare Theater’s A Raisin in the Sun includes (from left) Nemuna Ceesay as Beneatha Younger, Marcus Henderson as Walter Lee Younger, Margo Hall as Lena Younger, Ryan Nicole...
View ArticleCal Shakes ends season with a vibrant Dream
Erika Chong Shuch (left) is Titania, queen of the fairies, and Margo Hall is Bottom, a transformed rude mechanical and Daisuke Tsuji (rear) is Oberon a mischievous king of the fairies in the...
View ArticleWomen rock the Night at Cal Shakes season opener
Lisa Anne Porter (right) plays separated twins Viola and Sebastian in the California Shakesperae Theater season-opening production of Twelfth Night. The female-led cast also includes (from left) Rami...
View ArticleTrekking gently through O’Neill’s nostalgic Wilderness
Sid Davis (Dan Hiatt, pictured in orange suit) indulges the Miller family with food gags at the dinner table in Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness!, at ACT’s Geary Theater through Nov. 8. Below: Left to...
View ArticleRacism, history and drama in SF Playhouse’s plush Velvet
Ira Aldridge (Carl Lumbly, right) discusses his opening-night performance with a servant, Connie (Britney Frazier), after becoming the first black actor to play Othello on a British stage in Lolita...
View ArticleWonderful women in Word for Word’s Aunt Hagar
The cast of Word for Word’s All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones includes (from left) Kehinde Koyejo, Jia Taylor, Khary L. Moye, Sheila Balter and Margo Hall. Below: The Young Man’s (Khary L....
View ArticleSad, hopeful elegy in Shotgun’s brownsville song
Davied Morales is Tray and Cathleen Riddley is Lena in the Shotgun Players production of brownsville song (b-side for tray) by Kimber Lee. Below: Morales’ Tray has an uncomfortable meeting with...
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