THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Crevice, Impact Theatre.
By Sam Hurwitt
Who hasn’t wondered what his or her life would be like if, well, everything were different? It’s the sort of reflection that nobody really indulges in when everything’s going well, but that tends to consume one’s mind when one’s life seems to be going nowhere. That certainly describes...
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Titus Andronicus, Impact Theatre.
By Sam Hurwitt
Titus Andronicus is William Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy, and for centuries it was also generally considered to be his worst. Although the playwright’s contemporaries loved it, it wouldn’t regain popularity until after Word War II, when all the play’s hand-chopping, child-killing, rape, decapitation and cannibalism no longer seemed...
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #61: Working for the Mouse, Impact Theatre, June 24.
By Sam Hurwitt
When you’re a little kid at Disneyland, you may understand on some level that the Donald Duck waddling around shaking hands isn’t actually the cartoon character magically come to life but some oversize, mute representation of him. But it takes a...
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #46: Disassembly, Impact Theatre, May 14.
By Sam Hurwitt
There’s such a thing as being accident-prone, but when your body is covered with scars from freak incidents like falling on picket fences (and you’re not a stuntman for a living), you’ve got to start looking at something other than chance. That’s the trouble...
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #14: Romeo and Juliet, Impact Theatre, February 19.
By Sam Hurwitt
When I heard that Impact Theatre artistic director Melissa Hillman was going to be helming Romeo and Juliet this year, the tag lines started to write themselves in my mind (“never was a story of more whoa”–that sort of thing). Although Impact...
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Here we are pretty much back where we started on this blog, with my Top Ten list of my favorite shows for the year. It was awfully hard to whittle the 126 shows I saw this year in the Bay Area down to ten, which is probably a good sign: that’s a far better problem...
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #119: The Play About the Naked Guy, Impact Theatre, November 12.
By Sam Hurwitt
I rarely miss a show at Berkeley’s Impact Theatre, because I’ve always liked the company’s fast and loose energy and its knack for finding outrageously funny new comedies. And from the name alone, The Play About the Naked Guy...
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Show #21: Learn to Be Latina, Impact Theatre, February 20.
It’s funny that the night after I saw The Breach, in which racist imagery is offered up as an exhibit of the continuing harmful legacy of slavery, I’d see a show that’s also critiquing ethnic stereotypes, this time by gleefully reveling in their very...
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