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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Show #99: The Brothers Size, Magic Theatre, September 21.
I reviewed this in today’s Marin Independent Journal, so by all means go see what I had to say about it.
One thing I didn’t have room to say is that I love the fact that this production’s Ogun, Joshua Elijah Reese, played Elegba in a production...
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Show #68: Glory Glory, Front Line Theatre, June 18.
THEATER REVIEW — SAN FRANCISCO
By Sam Hurwitt
Bless me, blog, for I have sinned. Last weekend I made a pilgrimage out to Fort Mason’s Northside Theater (that is to say, Magic Theatre in the off-season) to see Glory Glory, a new play by a new local theater...
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #47: An Accident, Magic Theatre, April 21.
By Sam Hurwitt
An Accident comes from a very personal place. It’s a two-person play between a woman critically injured in an accident and the man who ran over her. Playwright Lydia Stryk was run over by a truck in a hit-and-run incident while...
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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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Top Ten Theater Productions of 2009
Although I started 2009 reviewing theater for one paper and ended the year reviewing for another, when I look over the list of the 108 shows I saw over the course of the year to determine my top ten, I realize that none of my favorite shows are...
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