Pegasus Players hit home with `For Colored Girls’

Jae-Ha Kim

“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf” is a beautiful and touching experience. It’s a play about being a black woman in today’s society, and it is done well by the Pegasus Players. The play, which opened to good reviews last April at the Edgewater Presbyterian Church, is currently running at CrossCurrents. The intimate atmosphere of the club suits the production. When the actresses speak, they are not reciting words to an estranged audience. They’re so close, and they look and talk directly at you. You feel as if you’re sitting in on an open confession. Some members of the audience even venture to talk back to the actresses. This doesn’t faze them one bit.

`Gladiolas’ humor wide awake: Play’s poignant scenes hit home

Jae-Ha Kim

When a playbill gives as much credit to a casket as it does its stars, you know you’re in for a good time. “Amidst the Gladiolas” is a good play on two levels. While it projects genuine humor, the production also is poignant with scenes that hit home more often than not. It centers on a day in the lives of eight people at a wake. And while the premise doesn’t seem to hold much promise for laughter, the Human Medium Ensemble cleverly brings out the everyday tensions revolving around the death of a loved (or not so loved) one.

Britons want U.S. to take the Cure – Rock group courts American audience

Jae-Ha Kim

Wherever the band goes, other members of the Cure tend to get overshadowed by the group’s vocalist, Robert Smith, who has been called the thinking man’s pinup. Smith looks like a dark version of Boy George. But Tolhurst said that he and fellow members Simon Gallup (bass), Porl Thompson (keyboards) and Boris Williams (drums) prefer to let Smith handle most of the media work.