King Richard’s Limp
Impact Theatre’s Richard III is unusually slow for either the company or the play.
My review is in the Oakland Tribune and other BANG papers. Read more
Three Other Sisters
Three messed-up daughters convene after their cruel mother’s death in Enemies: Foreign and Domestic at Central Works.
My review is in the San Jose Mercury News and other BANG papers. Read more
Tell It Crooked
There’s a little Catherine Trieschmann festival going on right now, with two companies presenting Bay Area premieres of the award-winning playwright’s works.
My review of Virago Theatre Company’s Crooked is in the San Jose Mercury News and other Bay Area News Group papers. Read more
Get Thee to Moscow
Three Sisters is one of those classics that other playwrights just love adapting.
My review of Tracy Letts’s version at Douglas Morrisson Theatre is in the San Jose Mercury News. Read more
Dust Bowl Lethargy
Actors Ensemble of Berkeley revives Dust Bowl musical Panhandle — with mixed results.
Crack Team in Search of Truth
Somebody’s trying to tell you something, and it’s clearly something desperately important, but you can’t understand. That’s what it feels like watching Superheroes, the world premiere by Sean San Jose that opens Cutting Ball’s 16th season.
Read my review in the San Jose Mercury News. Read more
Nothing but Zingers
Kathleen Turner plays journalist Molly Ivins as a patchwork of quips.
My review is in the San Jose Mercury News and other Bay Area News Group papers. Read more
The Apartment, the Musical
Neil Simon and Burt Bacharach made The Apartment into a musical, and I wish they hadn’t.
My review is in the San Jose Mercury News and other Bay Area News Group papers. Read more
The Best of All Possible Musicals
Leonard Bernstein’s operetta of Candide clinging to optimism in the face of countless horrors has a troubled history of its own.
