I got this e-mail from Mark Siano recently about his final production as Mark Siano and the Freedom Dancers.  This show looks really cool so you should check it out!

Next Friday we are opening the REALLY BIG SHOW!  Holy Wow!  You gotta see this thing, it is the most entertaining, energetic, and ambitious show I've ever been a part of.  Comedian Mark Siano (that's me! I'm switching to 3rd person, look out) and the funny and foxy Freedom Dancers present their grand finale SOFT ROCK performance, The Soft Rock Kid (February 19-27), in the beautiful ACT Falls Theatre.

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Joan Didion is not the most empathetic of writers. In her studies of the 1960s and 70s, Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, she treats her counterculture subjects (hippies, Black Panthers, The Doors) with disdain and in her novel Play it as it Lays, she treats her fictitious characters with brimming contempt. Her words are often exact and exacting, completely rational.

The tagline for the Intiman Theater’s production of Didion’s own adaptation of her 2005 memoir The Year of Magical Thinking says “It’s okay to lose your mind; you’d be crazy not to”. Here is a memoir of remarkable honesty and empathy while she navigates her own emotions while her daughter is hospitalized with pneumonia and her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, died of cardiac arrest – both within a few days of each other. Didion’s daughter Quintana died shortly after she finished writing her memoir, so it is left out of the book, but is dealt with in the stage adaptation she wrote.

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I'm not sure what went wrong, but the spirit of everyone's favorite '70s Colorado troubadour is nowhere to be found here.

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Sarah Rudinoff is outstanding as ever, and her bit is, not surprisingly, one of the highlights of the theater year.

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I can't recommend it wholeheartedly, and even if I could you might not be able to get tix.

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This Intiman World Premiere is a solid effort, but not quite on par with the playwright's best.

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The gifted team behind Intiman's lovely new Uncle Vanya manages to get laughs out of despair-heavy source material.

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Good, challenging, original theater may be scarce these days, but one local company consistently reminds us of the sublime possibilities of the medium.

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A Carlotta musical, an absurdist head-scratcher, and new adaptations of classic American stories are among the pre-Thanksgiving theater offerings around town.

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Capote offered a deeply compelling analysis of the author's struggle to write his masterpiece; Infamous isn't as deep, but it's flashier, more postmodern, more fun... and often even bust-out hilarious.

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