Double Your Fun
Impact Theatre’s Looney Tunes Comedy of Errors is a riot.
Read my review in the San Jose Mercury News. Read more
Impact Punches Out
After 20 years doing kick-ass theater in a pizza parlor basement, Impact Theatre calls it a day.
We break the story in the San Jose Mercury News and other BANG papers. Read more
Ammo for the Gun Debate
Playwright E.M. Lewis tries to inject some nuance into the gun debate in a new solo show.
Read my review in the San Jose Mercury News. You’ll notice gun advocates bashing the show (which they haven’t seen) in the comments as usual. Read more
King Richard’s Limp
Impact Theatre’s Richard III is unusually slow for either the company or the play.
My review is in the Oakland Tribune and other BANG papers. Read more
Troy, Troy Again
Impact Theatre goes way back to the Trojan War in its latest high-octane staging of Shakespeare. My review is on KQED Arts.
Out of the Woods (and into the Bar)
Impact Theatre gets gender-bent with an As You Like It where Celia’s a dude, them Dukes are double dutchesses, the melancholy Jaques is a female hipster, and the forest of Arden is a Northern California bar. I give you
a full report over on KQED Arts. Read more
A Tighter Titus
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 as outlandish as it once did. In the age of the slasher flick, Titus’s Grand Guignol elements are once again its primary selling point.
For the Love of the Game
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #80: Of Dice and Men, Impact Theatre, September 2.
