A Moor with Conviction
Trolling leads to tragedy in Marin Shakespeare’s Othello, featuring their first ex-con star.
Take the Twelfth
Another summer, another Twelfth Night.
Read my review in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Good Bad King Richard
Everybody loves a good bad guy.
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Arden Admirers
Marin Shakespeare Company celebrates its 25th year with the ever-popular As You Like It–in period dress, no less!
Read all about it in my review in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
The Sky’s Unlimited
The prolific Lauren Gunderson is back with another play about SCIENCE! I tell you all about it on KQED Arts.
Once More Into the Fringe
I took in a day and a half of the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The things I do for you people. My full report is on KQED Arts.
Country Matters
Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, Texas-style? Sure, why not? My review of Marin Shakespeare Company’s broad-as-a-barn C&W adaptation is up on the Marin Independent Journal‘s snazzy new website. Hie thee hence to check it out.
Back with a Vengeance
Marin Shakespeare Company digs up the first English revenge tragedy, and it’s awesome. You can find my review in today’s Marin Independent Journal.
The Language of Love
The Language Archive is easily summarized by one bit of breezy irony: A linguist can’t find the words to save his marriage. Fortunately there’s a lot more to Julia Cho’s play, which debuted at South Coast Rep in 2009 and now makes its Bay Area debut courtesy of Symmetry Theatre. Curiously, it’s the second play about a linguist who studies dying languages to play Berkeley in less than a year, after Madeleine George’s Precious Little at Shotgun Players last fall.
Don’t Believe His Lies
Robert Currier directs a delightful production of David Ives’s marvelously clever adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s 1643 farce The Liar. I wrote it up in today’s Marin Independent Journal, which you can find right around here.
