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When the Lights Went Out
THEATER REVIEW: BAY AREA Show #69: Fly by Night, TheatreWorks, July 16. Show #62: Tigers Be Still, SF Playhouse, June 25. Wade McCollum, Keith Pinto and Rachel Spencer Hewitt in Fly by Night. Photo by...
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For the Love of the Game
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Show #80: Of Dice and Men, Impact Theatre, September 2. Jonathon Brooks, Maria Giere Marquis and Jai Sahai in Of Dice and Men. Photo by Cheshire Isaacs. Half-drow assassin...
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Live Through This
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO Show #92: Honey Brown Eyes, SF Playhouse, September 27. Show #90: Night over Erzinga, Golden Thread Productions, September 18. Nic Grelli and Jennifer Stuckert in Honey...
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The Empathic Duo
Before the opening of the Bay Area premiere of Becky Shaw, SF Playhouse artistic director Bill English gave a stirring speech about theater as a gym for compassion, for developing the muscle of...
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A Tighter Titus
Titus Andronicus is William Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy, and for centuries it was also generally considered to be his worst. Although the playwright’s contemporaries loved it, it wouldn’t regain...
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Maybe I’m Just Too Behanding
Bay Area audiences have become familiar with the devilish and often bloody-minded wit of Martin McDonagh over the last decade or two, largely thanks to excellent productions of the London-born Irish...
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You Don’t Know Abulkasem
Invasion! is a puzzling play. Written by Tunisian-Swedish playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri and translated from the original Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles, it touches upon themes of youth culture,...
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Revolutionary Collaborators
It doesn’t matter how much I talk about The Hundred Flowers Project; there’s no way I can adequately capture the dueling senses of chaos and exquisitely crafted architecture that make up Christopher...
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A Maze Amazes
Just Theater is back with not one but two plays in rep, and the first one, A Maze, is pretty freaking remarkable. You can read my review on KQED Arts. Sarah Moser and Harold Pierce in A Maze. Photo by...
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Pageant Nation
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A left-wing blogger and a right-wing congressional aide wake up in a hotel room in various levels of undress, with no idea how they got there. The door is...
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Grad School by Design
Is it worth it for theatrical designers to get an MFA? I asked a few in my latest feature for Theatre Bay Area. Costume designer Miyuki Bierlein. Photo by Cheshire Isaacs. Theatre Designers and the MFA...
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For the Love of the Game
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Show #80: Of Dice and Men, Impact Theatre, September 2. Jonathon Brooks, Maria Giere Marquis and Jai Sahai in Of Dice and Men. Photo by Cheshire Isaacs. Half-drow assassin...
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Live Through This
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO Show #92: Honey Brown Eyes, SF Playhouse, September 27. Show #90: Night over Erzinga, Golden Thread Productions, September 18. Nic Grelli and Jennifer Stuckert in Honey...
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The Empathic Duo
Before the opening of the Bay Area premiere of Becky Shaw, SF Playhouse artistic director Bill English gave a stirring speech about theater as a gym for compassion, for developing the muscle of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Tighter Titus
Titus Andronicus is William Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy, and for centuries it was also generally considered to be his worst. Although the playwright’s contemporaries loved it, it wouldn’t regain...
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