THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Scorched, American Conservatory Theater.
By Sam Hurwitt
The primary selling point of Scorched is Oscar-nominated actor David Strathairn’s return to his native San Francisco for his second show at American Conservatory Theater, where he previously starred in artistic director Carey Perloff’s 1996 production of The Tempest. All the poster and flyer art is...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Higher, American Conservatory Theater.
By Sam Hurwitt
American Conservatory Theater doesn’t do new plays all the time, but it likes to throw the occasional world premiere into the mix from time to time. Last season there was the musical Tales of the City; a year before that was The Tosca Project; the previous...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #105: Race, American Conservatory Theater, October 27.
David Mamet’s play Race is a fine example of truth in advertising. It’s a play about race, and pretty much nothing but race. A powerful old white businessman has been accused of raping a young black woman, and he’s looking to switch law firms...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #93: Once in a Lifetime, American Conservatory Theater, September 28.
By Sam Hurwitt
American Conservatory Theater has kicked off its season with an oddity: Once in a Lifetime, a revival of a 1930 Hollywood satire by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, the writing team much, much better known for the...
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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 #24: The Homecoming, American Conservatory Theater, March 13.
By Sam Hurwitt
Even if they’ve never read Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, a lot of people have at least heard some variant of the opening sentence: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The characters in Harold...
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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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Show # 10: Clybourne Park, American Conservatory Theater, January 28.
Show #11: Seagull, Marin Theatre Company, February 1.
I have not one but two reviews in today’s Marin Independent Journal: the cheeky Raisin in the Sun companion piece Clybourne Park at ACT and the new translation of Chekhov’s Seagull at Marin Theatre Company. You can follow...
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Show #115: Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet, American Conservatory Theater, November 3.
Show #116: We (Heart) U, Nosferatu and The Medium, Cinnabar Theater, November 5.
This week in the Marin Independent Journal, I reviewed Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet, ACT’s conclusion of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother Sister Plays, and also reviewed Cinnabar’s double...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #66: The Tosca Project, American Conservatory Theater, June 9
By Sam Hurwitt
The culmination of American Conservatory Theater’s season, the world premiere of The Tosca Project has been a long time coming. Cocreated and staged by ACT artistic director Carey Perloff and San Francisco Ballet choreographer Val Caniparoli and...
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