THEATER REVIEW: SAN JOSE Show #39: Lolita Roadtrip, San Jose Stage Company, April 24. By Sam Hurwitt On Easter Sunday I took a road trip down to San Jose to see Lolita Roadtrip, the new play by Trevor Allen at San Jose Stage Company. Trevor and I used to work together at Theatre Bay Area, and...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO Show #36: No Exit, American Conservatory Theater, April 13. By Sam Hurwitt Even people who don’t know much about Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy may have heard his quotation “Hell is other people,” and maybe thought that handily encapsulated what this Existentialism thing is all about.  And no, that’s not it at all, but...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO Show #34: Into the Clear Blue Sky, Sleepwalkers Theatre, April 9. Pamela Smith,
 Adrian Anchondo, Dina Percia,
 Christopher Nelson
 and Eric Kerr. Photo by Claire Rice. By Sam Hurwitt Sleepwalkers Theatre’s entire current season is devoted to 28-year-old playwright J.C. Lee’s This World and After trilogy, which got off to an intriguing start with...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO Show #31: Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, Asian American Theater Company and Crowded Fire Theater, April 1. By Sam Hurwitt It opens with a slap in the face. Many, many slaps, in fact. In darkness we hear a woman being slapped over and over again. She’s being filmed—we hear the director...
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Show #35: The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Aurora Theatre Company, April 10. Aurora Theatre Company celebrates Tennessee Williams’s 100th birthday with his lesser-known Summer and Smoke rewrite, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale. Y’all can head on over to today’s Marin IJ to see what I thought of it. The Eccentricities of a Nightingale runs through May...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN JOSE Show #30: Legacy of Light, San Jose Repertory Theatre, March 30. By Sam Hurwitt Marie Curie notwithstanding, the contributions of women to the field of science is an oft-neglected topic, so it’s generally a good thing when something like the 2009 movie Agora or Karen Zacarías’s play from that same year, Legacy...
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Show #29: Beardo, Shotgun Players, March 26. By Sam Hurwitt Shotgun Players’ 2008 premiere of Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage was such a resounding success—winning the Glickman Award for best play to premiere in the Bay Area that year—that it’s no wonder that Shotgun commissioned Beowulf playwright Jason Craig and composer Dave Malloy...
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