The Gospel of Marcus
Ubuntu Theater Project takes a haunting Marcus Gardley play to church.
Read my review in the San Jose Mercury News and other BANG papers. Read more
Gotta Get That BART Cop
So a guy decides never to go out again after the LAPD Rodney King beating because it’s just not safe and finally emerges just in time for the Oscar Grant shooting by BART police. My review of Chasing Mehserle is up on KQED Arts and has already pissed at least one guy off in the comments.
Ruination and Redemption
Suddenly there’s a small Lynn Nottage festival going on in the Bay Area, with two of the acclaimed contemporary playwright’s works running simultaneously on two sides of the bay: Ruined at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre’s production of Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine at Fort Mason’s Southside Theater (across the hall from, and formerly part of, Magic Theatre).
