At Berkeley's tiny Impact Theatre, where tickets are $5 and $10, the shows are all written by and about people in their 20s and 30s. By ``truly speaking to people of our generation in our own community,'' Impact's fearless mission statement vows, the company can ``spark a movement toward theater, storytelling, community and direct experience within our generation as a whole.''
``There's something about the audience and the actors being together, live in the moment,'' says Josh Costello, Impact Theatre's 24-year- old artistic director. ``I wish more people my age knew how cool that can be.''
1998 SF Chronicle article
Here's a 1998 San Francisco Chronicle article all about the big theatres in the Bay Area trying to get young people in the door. This was when the word was starting to get around about Impact Theatre, and Steven Winn interviewed me for the piece.