Elaine Elinson, Author at 48 hills

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Flipping the script on a tragic war’s fallout in ‘Vietgone’

March 13, 2018

ONSTAGE "You lost a brother, I lost my family. You lost a brother, I lost my whole country… I lost everything I had." With this...

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The tale of an enduring marriage, sound effects included, in ‘Reel to Reel’

February 13, 2018

ONSTAGE If hearing about an intimate drama with two couples—one youthful, one aging—trying to figure out their relationships automatically conjures up "Who’s Afraid of...

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Telling—and dancing—the tragic story of Partition in ‘The Parting’

January 26, 2018

ONSTAGE The crowd of weary travelers staggered on stage—some in elegant jewel-toned salwar khameez and saris, some in ragged dhotis and shawls. They carried...

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‘Watch on the Rhine’ chimes uneasily with our moment

December 20, 2017

ONSTAGE In 1941, when she wrote Watch on the Rhine (playing at Berkeley Rep through January 14), Lillian Hellman would have had no idea of...

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‘The Secret Garden’ blooms with wonder and beauty

December 12, 2017

ONSTAGE The Secret Garden has been on Broadway, in the movies (since 1949!), and performed at probably every regional theater in the country at...

A historian watches ‘Girls of the Golden West’

December 6, 2017

Opera-lover Elaine Elinson is the coauthor of Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California,...

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‘The Normal Heart’ still beats ferociously at Theatre Rhino

November 14, 2017

ONSTAGE In the opening line of The Normal Heart (through Nov. 25, Theatre Rhinoceros at the Gateway Theater, SF), a young gay man in...

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Onstage: Roaring through life with ‘Eva’

October 31, 2017

ONSTAGE When Eva Malloy (Julia McNeal) muses "It’s a lifelong journey, isn't it, shaking off a Catholic childhood?" a knowing chuckle ripples through the...

Elaine Elinson

Flipping the script on a tragic war’s fallout in ‘Vietgone’

The tale of an enduring marriage, sound effects included, in ‘Reel to Reel’

Telling—and dancing—the tragic story of Partition in ‘The Parting’

‘Watch on the Rhine’ chimes uneasily with our moment

‘The Secret Garden’ blooms with wonder and beauty

A historian watches ‘Girls of the Golden West’

‘The Normal Heart’ still beats ferociously at Theatre Rhino

Onstage: Roaring through life with ‘Eva’

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