A Moor with Conviction
Trolling leads to tragedy in Marin Shakespeare’s Othello, featuring their first ex-con star.
It’s Not About Art
Yasmina Reza’s ever-popular Art is really about the nature of friendship.
Read my review in the East Bay Times. Read more
A Knight to Remember
Ron Campbell as Don Quixote at Marin Shakes makes us believe in impossible dreams.
Read all about it in my review in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Thursday Double Play
Show #100: In the Maze of Our Own Lives, The Jewish Theatre, October 20.
Show #102: Crimes of the Heart, Cinnabar Theater, October 22.
Prospero’s Bots
I wrote up Jon Tracy’s steampunk reinvention of The Tempest for today’s Marin Independent Journal, and you can see what I thought of it over yonder.
Doomed to Repeat It
This week I’m back at Marin Shakes, this time seeing The Complete History of America (abridged). I wrote it up for the Marin IJ, so you can read it over there.
A Rosensweig by Any Other Name
Although San Jose Rep and TheatreWorks had both done the play in the past, the late Wendy Wasserstein’s 1992 Broadway hit had somehow never made it to San Francisco until now, so I’d never seen The Sisters Rosensweig before Saturday night—nor, if truth be told, had I seen any of Wasserstein’s plays. I had some vague notion that it had something to do with Chekhov’s Three Sisters, because of my unexamined assumption that anything with three sisters had to be informed by that play, from Lear’s daughters to Daisy Duck’s nieces. Turns out the Rosensweigs aren’t Chekhovian in the slightest, although Wasserstein tosses in a few Three Sisters references in the same offhand, apropos-of-nothing way that distinguishes a lot of play’s bon mots.
