An August Ensemble
Marin Theatre Company kicks off its 50th season with August: Osage County.
Read my review in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Pretty Persuasion
A little Austen goes nicely with Shakespeare in Livermore.
Read my review in the East Bay Times and Mercury News. Read more
You Got Your Jazz in My Gem
If you think the trouble with August Wilson is it needs more interpretive dance, Marin has the show for you.
Read my review in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Disturbed in the Suburbs
Lisa D’Amour’s dark comedy gnaws at the unease lurking beneath suburban life.
Read my review on KQED Arts. Read more
Dancing Around the Genocide
Earnest young actors get in over their heads grappling with colonialism in Just Theater’s sharply cutting play within a play.
My review of We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915 is on KQED Arts. Read more
Live, Die, Fail
Marin Theatre Company gives us the cheery tale of the untimely deaths of the Fail sisters.
My review of Failure: A Love Story is in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Gant, Get It Out of My Head
Edward Gant brings his traveling Victorian freak show of heartbreak to Shotgun’s Ashby Stage. My review is on KQED Arts.
Buried Child Revived
Magic Theatre brings back one of its most famous premieres, 35 years later. My review of Buried Child is on KQED Arts.
Talk and Talk and Talk About a Revolution
Shotgun Players is taking on The Coast of Utopia,Tom Stoppard’s mammoth trilogy about the budding Russian intellectual life of the mid-19th century, planting seeds for the revolution that will come much later. Having done chapter one, Voyage, last year, Shotgun now presents part two, Shipwreck, in repertory with a limited revival of Voyage. My review‘s up on KQED Arts for the intrepid explorer.
On the Radio
Hey, remember last week when I linked to my feature in the Marin Independent Journal about It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at Marin Theatre Company and said I’d be reviewing it this week? Well, that happened in today’s Marin IJ, so you can read all about it over yonder.
