It’s Good to Be the King

It’s Good to Be the King

THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO

Show #99: Richard III, SHN, October 19.

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Ogre the Top

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Ogre the Top

THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO

Show #122: Shrek the Musical, SHN, December 1.

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Borscht League Creature Feature

Borscht League Creature Feature

THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO

Show #72: Young Frankenstein, SHN, June 30.

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It’s a Beautiful Day in the Barrio

It’s a Beautiful Day in the Barrio

Like a lot of theater fans, I got hooked on the late Canadian TV show Slings and Arrows, a thinly veiled parody of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival involving some of the same people who created The Drowsy Chaperone. One problematic consequence is that any new urban musical inevitably reminds me of the ridiculously over-the-top East Hastings: The Musical shown on that series.

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