Miss Bennet If You’re a Single Man in Possession of a Good Fortune
The overlooked Bennet middle sister gets her moment in Pride and Prejudice sequel.
Read my review in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Constitutionally Unconventional
A beauty queen plots to rewrite the US Constitution at Marin Shakes.
Read my review in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Don’t Call Agents—They’ll Call You
“For the most part, you actually can’t get an agent, you are gotten by an agent.” Five playwrights talk about their experience with (or without) agents in
my latest feature for Theatre Bay Area. Read more
The Glorious Fall of Bay Area Theater
Tis the season for fall picks.
Check out my autumnal roundup on KQED Arts. Read more
New Plays by the Bay
The Bay Area Playwrights Festival is a play-development pillar of a region known as a new-work hub.
Read my feature in American Theatre. Read more
Return of the Bear
Lauren Gunderson’s revenge comedy
Exit, Pursued by a Bear returns, this time in San Jose. Read my review in the San Jose Mercury News. Read more
Can’t Start a Fire Without a Spark
Lauren Gunderson’s latest play explores the near-impossibility of love under state-sponsored repression. My review is on KQED Arts.
Pursuing Bauer
San Francisco Playhouse’s Bauer is the umpteenth local production by prolific local playwright Lauren Gunderson in the last few years, after
The Taming and Exit, Pursued by a Bear with Crowded Fire Theater, I and You at Marin Theatre Company, By and By with Shotgun Players, Silent Sky with TheatreWorks, Emilie with Symmetry Theatre Company, and Toil and Trouble and the short “Damsel and Distress Go to a Party” with Impact Theatre Company. But it’s the very first SF Playhouse commission that has reached the company’s main stage season. As artistic director Bill English explained in his preshow speech opening night, he was so enthralled by a documentary about painter Rudolf Bauer that he saw on TV that he asked Gunderson to write a play about the artist. Like a lot of Gunderson’s recent plays, Bauer already had a subsequent production lined up before it premiered, and it’s going to New York’s 59E59 Theaters in the fall. Read more
Choppy Choppy
Berkeley’s Impact Theatre has a taste for blood, particularly in its Shakespeare productions but also in the new plays that make up most of its fare. So it’s hardly surprising that its latest assemblage of short plays, Bread and Circuses, is themed around violence as entertainment. In fact it’s really an appreciation of Impact as a company, with most of the shorts written by playwrights who’ve done full-length works with the theater in the past, including
Steve Yockey, Lauren Yee, Prince Gomolvilas, Lauren Gunderson and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. 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.
