THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #23: As Always, Verismo Productions, March 13.
By Sam Hurwitt
Songwriter Peter W. Tucker’s independently produced musical benefitting San Francisco Parks Trust’s Music in Parks program, As Always has caused a bit of confusion around the Theatre Bay Area office. The designer for our magazine is also named Peter Tucker, so whenever...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #21: Hermes, No Nude Men Productions, March 10.
By Sam Hurwitt
“The god came back. Shortly afterward, the world ended.” That’s what Lauren Spencer tells us as the narrator and sometime bartender in Hermes, a new play playing at the Exit Theater in a No Nude Men production directed by Sleepwalkers Theatre...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #20: Rock of Ages, Curran Theatre, March 9.
By Sam Hurwitt
I should be exactly the right age for Rock of Ages. The Broadway jukebox musical is set in Los Angeles in the mid to late ’80s, which was when I was in high school, so I already know pretty much all...
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY & SAN FRANCISCO
Show #16: Ruined, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, March 2.
Show #19: Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, March 6.
By Sam Hurwitt
Suddenly there’s a small Lynn Nottage festival going on in the Bay Area, with two of the acclaimed contemporary playwright’s works running simultaneously on two sides of the...
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Show #18: Litter: The Story of the Framingham Dodecatuplets, American Conservatory Theater, March 5.
I wrote up Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s world premiere commission for the ACT MFA class of 2011 in Thursday’s Marin Independent Journal, so go forth and read all about it.
Litter plays through March 19 at Zeum Theater, 221 Fourth St., San...
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #17: I Dream of Chang and Eng, UC Berkeley Department of Theater Dance & Performance Studies, March 4.
By Sam Hurwitt
UC Berkeley’s theater department has been lucky enough to have one of the most prominent Asian-American playwrights in the country in residence, Berkeley resident Philip Kan Gotanda, and he’s unveiled a new...
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #15: A Man’s Home…, Central Works, February 20.
By Sam Hurwitt
There’s something mighty strange going on at the Berkeley City Club. The latest play by Central Works has a very different feel from other collaboratively created pieces the company has done in the past. Some of that feeling is inevitable because A...
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