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It Will Have Blood

September 2, 2010
It Will Have Blood

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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Asp You Like It

September 2, 2010
Asp You Like It

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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Oh That Norman

August 26, 2010
Oh That Norman

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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We Need This

August 19, 2010
We Need This

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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Till the End of the World

August 13, 2010
Till the End of the World

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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Putting the Sex in Sexagenarian

August 9, 2010
Putting the Sex in Sexagenarian

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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Agnes of Crom

August 4, 2010
Agnes of Crom

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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