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Chas Belov

Recommended by Chas Belov

  • Funny, Like An Abortion by Rachel Bublitz
    4 Jul. 2022
    “ I saw this streamed as part of the Playground SF production. It's funny, intense, and truly frightening. It needs to be produced right now, as many times as possible, as widely as possible. ”
  • BUFFALO'ED by Jeannie Barroga
    18 Jul. 2021
    “ I saw this at San Jose Stage Company in 2012. I found it not only educational, in that I learned about a part of American, and African American, history we don't usually hear about, but also entertaining as I felt I was watching real people facing real issues. As I type this, images from the production come to mind years later. This creates a vivid picture of our history. ”
  • Un-Hinged: a Silent Opera by Krista Knight
    10 Aug. 2020
    “ I saw this in Wiley West's production and was blown away by it. It has even more relevance in this era where we are deconstructing male privilege. A really creepy (in a good way) play that deserves to be seen on multiple stages. ”
  • WHEN THEY SEE ME (ONE ACT VERSION) by Twinkle Burke
    2 Aug. 2020
    “ A Twilight Zone episode for the Black Lives Matter age. The mother and son relationship reads as authentic; the mother's hopes, dreams, and worries for her son clash with the son's idealism and boldness. I was moved to tears about two-thirds of the way through. I want to see this come to life. ”
  • You Will Get Sick by Noah Diaz
    4 May. 2020
    “ What do I say about this play? It's experimental. It's wild. It's funny. It's economic. Wants hang in the air like giant marauding birds. Oh, yeah, there are giant marauding birds. Very strange to read this in the age of COVID-19 - although it's not a COVID-19 play - and it feels just as out of control, as one may feel when one is ill. I think an adventurous theatre would have a great time staging this, on a stage. Given it is not a realistic play, I also think it would work perfectly well streaming from the actor's homes. ”
  • Aliquippa by Lydia Valentine
    3 May. 2020
    “ This is a well-drawn play. The characters are vivid and distinct from one another, full of inter-family conflict and full of love for one another. I did most of my growing up in southwest Pennsylvania, and this play has a very strong sense of place. It also has a very strong sense of time, our modern #BlackLivesMatter time. I was moved to tears at the end. Read it/stage it. ”
  • CoVid by Jeremy Kareken
    24 Mar. 2020
    “ Struggling to accustom myself to online meetings - and having dealt with bureaucracy for many years - I found this play spot on. The sparks fly easily and hit their targets with accuracy and wit. A great use of the currently available technology to bring new productions to the (electronic) stage. Gave this reader a bunch of much-needed laughs. ”
  • The Brothers Paranormal by Prince Gomolvilas
    22 Feb. 2020
    “ I saw the Bay Area Playwrights Festival reading and the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre production and it was definitely worth the second visit! The humor, the sudden twists, the fright, all contributed to my enjoyment of the play. Imaginative take on Asian-Black interaction that is still vivid in my mind nearly a year later. ”
  • Ghosts of Bogotá by Diana Burbano
    15 Feb. 2020
    “ I saw this at AlterTheater. It's a wild, messy, wonderful play about family, abuse, death, culture, religion and how you find your place in this world as an adult when your childhood was so out of control. Funny and sad, this transported me to another place. See it! ”
  • DON'T STOP ME: a dance-a-thon to the death by Dave Malloy & by Krista Knight
    4 Feb. 2020
    “ I saw this in a student production at San Francisco University High School. This play is the best of both worlds for a student play: it's fun, and it's going to save lives. Three worlds, actually; the music is really good. A very much needed play in this time of academic pressure. ”

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