Arts And Entertainment
The Theater: Richards’ ‘Come Home’ Comes to SF’s The Marsh
By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Friday February 22, 2008
Jovelyn Richards of Oakland is a born storyteller. When she was little, her mother would have visitors by for coffee “and I heard things that weren’t said; I put language to their secrets. After they left, I told my mother their story. She knew the truth from them and would say, ‘Where did you get that?’ I was putting language to their secrets. I didn’t know how to decode that for her.”
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Contra Costa Civic Theatre Stages ‘The Cocoanuts’
By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Friday February 22, 2008
A clerk at a Florida resort hotel during the 1920s property boom leaps out from behind his desk and joins in a lively production number. The villainess in an engagement con on a wealthy mother and daughter leads a line of dancers doing the Charleston.
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The Theater: Aurora Theatre Stages Diana Son’s ‘Satellites’
By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Tuesday February 19, 2008
A Korean-American architect and her African-American husband move with their baby daughter into a fixer-upper Brooklyn brownstone—holes in the plaster, boxes everywhere, a makeshift architect’s office—when a black neighbor, who seems to have been the original kid-on-the-corner, drops by repeatedly offering one deal after another, and the husband’s ne’er-do-well adoptive brother blows in from an Asian getaway, wanting to move in and start a business with his bro’—and the new Korean nanny inadvertently starts pushing a new mother’s buttons. Then a brick comes crashing through the window.
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