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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Show #48: The Wind and Rain, Exit Theatre, April 23.
The Exit Theatre’s annual DIVAfest of work by women artists turned out to be a little pared down this year. Maggie Cronin’s one-woman pirate show A Most Notorious Woman starring Exit founder and artistic director Christina Augello has been postponed until July, leaving the...
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Show #45: Girlfriend, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, April 14.
Let’s just get this out of the way at the outset. It’s inevitable that Berkeley Rep’s latest world premiere, Girlfriend, is going to be compared to the one that opened the theater’s season: the Green Day pop-punk opera American Idiot, which opened on Broadway this week to...
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Show #44: Macho Bravado, Asian-American Theater Company, April 10.
It’s been good to see Asian-American Theater Company producing a full season again after a couple years’ hiatus and a couple changes of management. But truth be told, I’ve been disappointed with the first couple of plays the company has produced this season, the world premieres...
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Show #43: A History of Human Stupidity, Rough and Tumble, April 9.
Rough and Tumble is a local theater troupe I’ve been following with interest since I caught them performing an excerpt of the Neo-Futurists’ 43 Plays for 43 Presidents at the 2006 San Francisco Theatre Festival, which I quite enjoyed. Unfortunately the first full...
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Show #41: Scalpel!, Brava! for Women in the Arts, April 2.
A rock musical about plastic surgery is one of those things, of which there are many, that could go very right or very wrong, and you just never know until you get there. Celebrating its world premiere at Brava! for Women in the Arts...
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Show #40: Vigil, American Conservatory Theater, March 31.
I’ve been feeling a little like a sucker going to American Conservatory Theater lately, because I haven’t liked anything there this season aside from the season-opening import Noël Coward’s Brief Encounter. But even with that sense of trepidation, Vigil seemed like a pretty good bet.
Former core company...
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Show #37: A Seagull in the Hamptons, Shotgun Players, March 26.
For some reason Berkeley’s getting its fill of Anton Chekhov adaptations lately. Last month Central Works did its own stage version of Chekhov’s novella An Anonymous Story, and Berkeley Rep just announced its next season including the West Coast premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s new...
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Show #38: Is He Dead?, Cinnabar Theater, March 27.
My review is in today’s Marin Independent Journal, so you can go check it out there.
Is He Dead? runs through April 17 at Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma. http://www.cinnabartheater.org.
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Show #39: Equivocation, Marin Theatre Company, March 30.
My review is in today’s Marin Independent Journal, so pick up a copy if you’re in the North Bay, or check it out here.
Equivocation runs through May 2 at Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. http://marintheatre.org
Bonus link: My cover story on the play in...
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