Show #100: Travels with My Aunt, Cinnabar Theater, September 25.
I reviewed this in today’s Marin Independent Journal, so read all about it over there.
I was originally going to see three shows last weekend, but life intervened in all sorts of interesting ways (note to self: if planning to drive to SF when...
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #98: Compulsion, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, September 19.
By Sam Hurwitt
Rinne Groff’s play Compulsion is named after another Compulsion, Meyer Levin’s 1956 nonfiction novel based on the murder trial of Leopold and Loeb (later made into a movie with Orson Welles). Although Groff’s play has nothing to do with Leopold and...
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Show #99: The Brothers Size, Magic Theatre, September 21.
I reviewed this in today’s Marin Independent Journal, so by all means go see what I had to say about it.
One thing I didn’t have room to say is that I love the fact that this production’s Ogun, Joshua Elijah Reese, played Elegba in a production...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #97: Jerry Springer the Opera, Ray of Light Theatre, September 17.
By Sam Hurwitt
It’s strange that something as silly as Jerry Springer the Opera could have ignited protests and the threat of criminal charges—not for slander or copyright infringement but for blasphemy, which is apparently the sort of thing you...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #96: Etiquette, Rotozaza, September 17.
By Sam Hurwitt
My Theatre Bay Area colleague Clay Lord has been having an interesting discussion on TBA’s Chatterbox blog and in a forthcoming article about what is and isn’t theater, particularly where technology is involved: What if some of the action takes place on Twitter? What...
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #93: The Salt Plays, Part One: In the Wound, Shotgun Players, September 11.
By Sam Hurwitt
Prolific local writer-director Jon Tracy has taken on a tremendous undertaking for himself with Shotgun Players’ first ever two-parter. What makes it so impressive is that the subject matter—turning two of the most seminal works...
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Show #95: In the Red & Brown Water, Marin Theatre Company, September 14.
Part one of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays opened Tuesday at Marin Theatre Company, with the remaining plays coming up at the Magic next week and ACT next month. My review’s in today’s issue of the Marin Independent Journal, so...
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #92: MilkMilkLemonade, Impact Theatre, September 10.
By Sam Hurwitt
Impact Theatre’s 15th season is off to a promising start with the Bay Area premiere of MilkMilkLemonade (opening just a week after its West Coast premiere in L.A.). Joshua Conkel’s 2009 Off-Off-Broadway hit has all the trappings of a sweet coming-of-age...
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #89: Trouble in Mind, Aurora Theatre Company, August 26.
By Sam Hurwitt
Alice Childress’s play Trouble in Mind feels both very much of its time and ahead of it. First presented off-Broadway in 1955, a month before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, it’s...
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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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