THEATER REVIEW: EAST BAY
Show #86: Macbeth, California Shakespeare Theater, August 21.
By Sam Hurwitt
For a play that’s supposedly cursed, whose title theater people make a big show of not speaking aloud, the bloody tragedy Macbeth is performed so often that it’s a credit to William Shakespeare that it retains as much power as it does...
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Show #90: As You Like It, Curtain Theatre, August 28.
Show #91: Antony and Cleopatra, Marin Shakespeare Company, August 28.
I’m currently on vacation and not doing much blogging, which would kind of defeat the purpose, but I should probably mention that I have two reviews in today’s Marin Independent Journal. Both North Bay, both Shakespeare,...
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #85: Table Manners, Shotgun Players, August 21.
Show #87: Living Together, Shotgun Players, August 22.
Show #88: Round and Round the Garden, Shotgun Players, August 22.
By Sam Hurwitt
The Norman Conquests isn’t your standard trilogy. The plays in Alan Ayckbourn’s comedic 1973 triptych don’t happen one after another but all at more or less...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #84: This Is All I Need, Mugwumpin, August 9.
By Sam Hurwitt
The San Francisco performance ensemble Mugwumpin went through a rebirth in the last year after the departure of cofounder Denmo Ibrahim, with a bunch of new members brought into the company and a new structure to the...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #83: This World Is Good, Sleepwalkers Theatre, August 7.
By Sam Hurwitt
Sleepwalkers Theatre is devoting its whole season to the world premiere of This World and After, a trilogy by East Bay playwright J.C. Lee that takes place before and after an impending apocalypse. You wouldn’t know catastrophe’s...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #82: Sex Tapes for Seniors, STFS Productions, August 6.
By Sam Hurwitt
The Victoria Theatre has such run-down, old-timey charm that it seems a shame that plays aren’t staged there more often. So it’s a pleasure to return to the compact 1908 vaudeville house in the heart of...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #81: Agnes the Barbarian, Thunderbird Theatre Company, July 30.
By Sam Hurwitt
Shakespeare, schmakespeare—and don’t even talk to me about Neil Simon. (Seriously, just don’t.) I think we all know by now that what the Bay Area really needs is more plays about Conan the Barbarian.
Fortunately, San...
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