Show #76: Seven Guitars, Marin Theatre Company, August 16.
I reviewed MTC’s first foray into August Wilson’s work for today’s Marin Independent Journal. You can read all about it there.
Seven Guitars runs through September 11 at Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. http://marintheatre.org
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Tags: august wilson, callie floor, charles branklyn, chris houston, kent gash, kurt landisman, l. peter callender, marc damon johnson, margo hall, marin ij, marin theatre company, mtc, omoze idehenre, shinelle azoroh, tobie windham
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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #53: Nobody Move, Intersection for the Arts/Campo Santo, June 5.
By Sam Hurwitt
Everybody in Nobody Move is on the move. More specifically, they’re on the run. Gambler Jimmy Luntz is in hiding because he panicked and shot the thug who came to lean on him for bad debts. Booze-soaked Anita has...
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Tags: brian rivera, campo santo, catherine castellanos, daveed diggs, denis johnson, donald e. lacy jr, intersection, margo hall, melyssa jo kelly, michael torres, sean san jose, tommy shepherd
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY & SAN FRANCISCO
Show #16: Ruined, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, March 2.
Show #19: Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, March 6.
By Sam Hurwitt
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...
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Tags: adrian roberts, bay area, berkeley, berkeley rep, berkeley repertory theatre, britney frazier, broken chord, carla duren, carla punch, clint ramos, daveed diggs, david westley skillman, east bay, ellen sebastian chang, fort mason, halili knox, jason bowen, joseph kamal, kathleen geldard, lap chi chu, liesl tommy, lorraine hansberry theatre, lynn nottage, margo hall, michael j. asberry, oberon k.a. adjepong, pascale armand, review, rudy guerrero, san francisco, Theater, theatre, tonye patano, wendell b. franklin, zainab jah
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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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Tags: act, alice childress, Ann Randolph, aurora, bay area, berkeley, berkeley rep, bill cain, campo santo, caryl churchill, center rep, chinaka hodge, cutting ball, enrique urueta, eric wilcox, homer, impact, intersection, jason grote, jason harding, jon tracy, josh kornbluth, joshua torrez, just theater, liz duffy adams, loretta greco, luis alfaro, magic, magic theatre, marcus gardley, margo hall, marin, marin theatre company, mark jackson, matthew sweet, mugwumpin, romi dias, san francisco, sfsu, shotgun, shotgun players, sophocles, tarell alvin mccraney, the jewish theatre, Theater, theatre, thunderbird theatre company, tim kniffin, todd almond, Top 10, william shakespeare
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Show #115: Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet, American Conservatory Theater, November 3.
Show #116: We (Heart) U, Nosferatu and The Medium, Cinnabar Theater, November 5.
This week in the Marin Independent Journal, I reviewed Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet, ACT’s conclusion of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother Sister Plays, and also reviewed Cinnabar’s double...
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Tags: act, alexis lane jensen, allison rae baker, american conservatory theater, cinnabar, elizabeth craven, elly lichenstein, emma mcnairy, gregory wallace, jack paglen, jared mcneill, keith baker, lukas thompson, margo hall, marin ij, mark rucker, mary gannon-graham, menotti, omoze idehenre, review, richard prioleau, san francisco, shinelle azoroh, simberly anderman, tarell alvin mccraney, Theater, theatre, tobie windham, valentina osinsku, william o'neill
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #89: Trouble in Mind, Aurora Theatre Company, August 26.
By Sam Hurwitt
Alice Childress’s play Trouble in Mind feels both very much of its time and ahead of it. First presented off-Broadway in 1955, a month before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, it’s...
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Tags: alice childress, aurora, berkeley, earll kingston, elizabeth carter, jon joseph gentry, margo hall, melissa quine, michael ray wisely, patrick russell, review, rhonnie washington, robin stanton, Theater, theatre, tim kniffin
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Show #28: Mirrors in Every Corner, Intersection for the Arts, March 1.
When you walk into Intersection for the Arts to see Mirrors on Every Corner, the new play by 25-year-old playwright Oakland native Chinaka Hodge, it looks more like a gallery exhibit than a stage set. Evan Bissell’s art installation and set design run...
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Tags: campo santo, chinaka hodge, daveed diggs, dwight huntsman, intersection, living word project, margo hall, mark bamuthi joseph, review, Theater, traci tolmaire, youth speaks
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