Caught in the Net
Local playwright Kathy Rucker’s self-produced drama takes you backward in time through a cyberstalking tragedy. My review of Crystal Springs is on KQED Arts.
Assassin Nation
That Stephen Sondheim has picked some perverse subjects for his musicals shouldn’t be much of a surprise to anyone, given that one of his most beloved classics concerns a certain serial-killing barber who provides the secret ingredient for his neighbor’s meat pie shop. But a musical about the various people who have killed or attempted to kill the President of the United States from John Wilkes Booth down to John Hinckley Jr.? Now that’s really pushing the boundaries of good taste.
About the Moon-a and the June-a
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #23: As Always, Verismo Productions, March 13.
