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By Paul Myvold
The Laramie Project at The Western Stage - I have to confess that I traveled to The Western Stage to see The Laramie Project with some reserve. I know the script having done a reading of it a few years ago at Gavilan College in the heyday of the Monday Night Play Reading series. It is a unique piece ...read more.

THEATRE NOTES
Nunsense, Actos, Divas Divine
By Paul Myvold
So what’s funny about nuns? The very sight of a nun in a traditional habit automatically raises certain expectations – chastity, poverty, obedience – certainly. Maybe a bit of severity and rigidity tempered with Christian kindness. So when a nun does something unexpected, out of character, surprising, like wearing red sneakers, joining in a chorus kick line or uttering a mild expletive, we get… voilà! Comedy! ...read more.

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A monthly guide to theatre performances and auditions

PAUL'S PIX
Indiana Jones and the
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Film Commentary by Paul Myrvold
So Indiana Jones has left the Nazis and World War II behind. Now he’s a graying tenured professor, a fit sixty-something, who can still wear a brown fedora, sling a whip like Lash La Rue and, when push really comes shove, trade blows like a bare-knuckle brawler. The Indy we love lives! ...read more.

El Teatro Campesino
Cultural Treasure in Out & About Country
By Paul Myvold
[archive] El Teatro Campesino, born out of the 1960s struggle to secure rights for exploited farm workers in California, is the seminal Chicano theatre company in American. Luis Valdez and his band of valiant thespians took street theatre into the fields to help Cesar Chavez ...read more.