Go Grumpily into That Good Night

Go Grumpily into That Good Night

An elderly misanthrope goes through her pre-suicide to-do list at the EXIT.

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Holiday Treats, Hold the Chestnuts

Holiday Treats, Hold the Chestnuts

Looking for new ways to ring in the holidays in the theater? Look no further than

my seasonal roundup on KQED Arts! Read more

Drama Backstage

Drama Backstage

The latest of several new Stuart Bousel plays premiering at the EXIT this year is about, by and mostly for theater people.

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Once More into the Fringe

10 September, 2014 Theater No comments
Once More into the Fringe

I checked out 10 and a half consecutive hours of the San Francisco Fringe Festival, and boy is my everything tired. 

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Nostalgia in the Time of Facebook

Nostalgia in the Time of Facebook

Writer-director-producer Stuart Bousel labels his new play The Age of Beauty “an experiment in conversation,” and indeed the entire play is made up of conversations between different pairs of women, broken up by short monologues by other women characters who don’t appear in any of the dialogues. The women in the dialogues are all members of the same circle of friends from college in Tucson, Arizona, some of them living now in San Francisco and others in New York.

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Everybody’s Helen

Everybody’s Helen

So five Helen of Troys walk into a bedroom… My DIVAfest writeup is up on KQED Arts.

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These Are the People in Your Neighborhood

These Are the People in Your Neighborhood

As company-in-residence at Exit on Taylor, the avant-garde Cutting Ball Theater strikes an odd contrast with the Tenderloin District right outside its doors. Inside, challenging works by Ionesco, Beckett or Will Eno may compete with the hollering of heavily lubricated voices outside, and walking down the street to BART or one’s car from the show can be an obstacle course of homeless people, drug dealers and their customers.

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The Gods Must Be Crazy

The Gods Must Be Crazy

There are plenty of companies that I follow because I feel I should keep informed about what they’re doing for one reason or another, and there are other companies that may be a little more under the radar of some of my colleagues but that I follow simply because I enjoy what they do.

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Twice Told Tale

27 January, 2011 Theater 1 comment
Twice Told Tale

Show #5: Bone to Pick & Diadem, the  Cutting Ball Theater, January 20.

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Agnes of Crom

Agnes of Crom

Shakespeare, schmakespeare—and don’t even talk to me about Neil Simon. (Seriously, just don’t.) I think we all know by now that what the Bay Area really needs is more plays about Conan the Barbarian.

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