THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #116: God’s Plot, Shotgun Players, December 3.
By Sam Hurwitt
American theater started as a criminal act. The first play performed in English in the colonies was Ye Bare and Ye Cubbe, a satirical stab at the English throne performed in rural Virginia in 1665. As Shakespeare’s contemporaries could attest a generation before,...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #118: Bring It On: The Musical, SHN, December 14.
By Sam Hurwitt
Bring It On: The Musical may look like just the latest in a very, very long line of hit movies and cult classics that have been turned into stage musicals in recent years, but looks can be deceiving. This should...
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #109: The Chalk Boy, Impact Theatre, November 5.
By Sam Hurwitt
If there’s one thing we learn from Joshua Conkel’s recent plays at Impact Theatre, it’s that kids are jerks. Last season Impact produced MilkMilkLemonade, Conkel’s comedy about preteen bullying, repressed homosexuality and chicken processing. Now the Berkeley company reteams with the Washingtonian...
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Show #115: The Glass Menagerie, Marin Theatre Company, November 29.
I reviewed this Tennessee Williams chestnut for today’s Marin Independent Journal. So it’s all over yonder if you want to read all about it.
The Glass Menagerie plays through December 18 at Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. http://marintheatre.org
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #103: The Kipling Hotel, The Marsh, October 23.
By Sam Hurwitt
Don Reed’s popular one-man show East 14th: True Tales of a Reluctant Player ran at the Marsh and the Marsh Berkeley for two and a half years, chronicling his childhood in 1970s Oakland between his Jehovah’s Witness missionary stepfather...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #106: Totem, Cirque du Soleil, October 28.
By Sam Hurwitt
Montreal’s Cirque du Soleil produces such a steady stream of shows that either take root in Vegas or tour indefinitely around the world that we get a new one passing through the Bay Area every couple of years. In 2009 it was...
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #114: Endgame and Watt, Cal Performances, November 17.
By Sam Hurwitt
Dublin’s Gate Theatre knows Samuel Beckett backward and forward, having done full retrospectives of all the great Irish modernist’s plays more than once. The Gate does a lot more than Beckett, of course—it’s also well known for its Pinter productions—but its...
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