South Korean director Bong Joon-ho is one of global cinema’s most consistently interesting directors — his films are typically blockbuster-style entertainments told with supreme visual flair yet always housing deeper layers of social commentary underneath. This is a delicate balancing […]
It’s Halloween 2019 and the subscription model for web-based content distribution is king. Given that you, as a citizen of the world, are extremely likely to be subscribed to at least one of the two streaming behemoths, Netflix or Amazon […]
Against the illuminated blue backdrop of the main theater at the Barbara Mertes Center for the Arts, Las Positas College English professor Steve Budd sauntered back-and-forth across the stage, embodying at least 12 different characters, some in conversation with each […]
An officially recognized sub-genre, defined by the Watching Staff at the New York Times as “character-driven films [that] are all talk and no action,” the “hangout movie” is a grand cinematic tradition— representing such classics as Robert Altman’s “Nashville,” Richard […]
Quentin Tarantino— for a director whose filmography over the last decade has seen Hitler getting shot in the face with a Tommy Gun, a plantation exploding and the hanging of a racial-slur spewing outlaw— sure stirs up a lot of […]
From the streets of New Orleans, to the clubs of Chicago, to the halls of the Barbara Mertes Center of Las Positas, jazz music is known for saving itself by constantly changing. It’s lasted for decades while still constantly evolving, […]
A prayer is spoken as the lights are still down, as the show begins. The unnamed narrator of “The Drowsy Chaperone” explains to the audience what he prays as he enters a theater. He asks, begs, even implores God to […]
When student Taylor Hendricks runs through the song and dance number “Accident Waiting to Happen” for the upcoming spring musical, the show calls for it to be done while wearing a pair of roller skates. “Break a leg” seems to […]
It’s difficult to say if the Barbara Mertes Center for the Arts feels larger when it’s full or when it’s completely empty. That perception probably changes depending on where you’re standing. On Feb. 7, Brian Copeland stood on the main […]
Upcoming Plays from LPC’s Theater Department As the Fall semester comes to an end, the theater department prepares for their last showcase of the year and promise much more during the Spring semester. As their last showcase for the semester, the […]
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