THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Jesus in India, Magic Theatre.
By Sam Hurwitt
Playwright Lloyd Suh made a big impression in 2009 with American Hwangap, his hilarious world premiere comedy at Magic Theatre about a Korean-American family dealing with the abrupt return of the father and husband who abandoned them many years before, come back to celebrate his...
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Show #13: What We’re Up Against, Magic Theatre, February 9.
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
By Sam Hurwitt
It’s hard not to compare the world premiere of What We’re Up Against to the last (and first) time artistic director Loretta Greco staged a Theresa Rebeck play at Magic Theatre, with 2009’s Mauritius, a whip-smart crime caper about rare...
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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: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #118: Or,, Magic Theatre, November 10.
By Sam Hurwitt
Although based in New York, Liz Duffy Adams is certainly an honorary San Francisco playwright by now, having debuted several plays with Crowded Fire (One Big Lie, The Listener) and the Glickman Award-winning Dog Act with Shotgun Players. Now she’s back with Magic...
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Fourteenth show of 2010: Oedipus el Rey, Magic Theatre, February 3.
Classic plays don’t get much more classic than Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus Rex. Freud’s theories aside, if you’re not familiar with the sad tale of the guy became king by unknowingly killing his father and marrying his mother, I don’t know where you’ve been for...
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