by Theatre Lunatico | Oct 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Long before the time of scary movies and costumed kids collecting candy door-to-door, Halloween began as a sacred celebration of life on the cusp of death. At the end of harvest’s plenitude and the onset of winter, ghosts were believed to return to haunt the earth,...
by Theatre Lunatico | Apr 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
On February 11, 2022, Theatre Lunatico lost a dear friend and a treasured member of our company—scenic designer & technical directorGideon Jones Gideon was both an artist and an inventor, and a vital part of the growth and development of La Val’s...
by Theatre Lunatico | Jun 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
A warm hello from the Theatre Lunatico core collective; we hope that you are all safe and well. 2020 finds us all in unprecedented times. Just as we were ready to send out an update to you all on our response to the COVID-19 shelter-in-place, we woke to news of George...
by Theatre Lunatico | Sep 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Shakespeare’s Roman Empire Strikes New Trumpean Notes by Barry David Horwitz I have always avoided this play. It’s a horror show of grotesque, gory, and ghoulish murders, rapes, and tortures that take place in a fictional late Roman Empire. “Titus...
by Theatre Lunatico | Oct 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
Millennial Notes Steven Dietz Entices Us with Suspense and Mystery by Rachel Norby I thoroughly enjoyed Theatre Lunatico’s masterful presentation of “Dracula.” Performed in La Val’s Subterranean Theater, the setting is intimate and spooky. Whispered echoes from the...
by Theatre Lunatico | Nov 17, 2017 | The School for Scandal, Uncategorized
Theatre Lunatico Artistic Director Tina Taylor was recently interviewed by Theatre critic, Sam Hurwitt, for the November issue of The Monthly, a magazine on culture in the East Bay. The article focuses on Theatre Lunatico’s move into the Subterranean Theater at...
