Singing About the City
Hey, another musical about San Francisco! And another, and another…a different one every night!
My review of Un-Scripted Theater Company’s Foglandia on KQED Arts. Read more
Un-Scripted…with Scripts!
Improvised comedy is bound to be a hit-or-miss affair sometimes; so is scripted theater, when it comes right down to it. I’ve been consistently impressed with the efforts of San Francisco’s Un-Scripted Theatre Company, which manages to improvise a different full-length play every night, often to hilarious effect. I’ve seen them do holiday musicals, Bollywood-style musicals with puppets and musicals in the style of your favorite playwright. Their last show, Secret Identity Crisis, was a terrific superhero send-up. Other shows I missed included improvised Shakespeare and plays in the genre of your choice in Dickensian style. Inevitably some nights and some shows are better than others, but their batting average with the stuff they make up on the shop has been as good as or better than a lot of the small fully-scripted companies I follow.
