A Good “Clean” Play
CCCT revives Sarah Ruhl’s tale of a doctor, her sister, her maid, her husband and his lover.
Read my review in the Contra Costa Times. Read more
Mama/Lama Drama
Marin Theatre Company gets in on the Sarah Ruhl action with The Oldest Boy.
Read my review in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Family Reunion of the Dead
Shotgun Players presents an unforgettable Eurydice.
Read my review on KQED Arts. Read more
The Glorious Fall of Bay Area Theater
Tis the season for fall picks.
Check out my autumnal roundup on KQED Arts. Read more
Boys Will Be Girls
TheatreFIRST reemerges from a producing hiatus to take over Berkeley’s Live Oak Theatre and produce Sarah Ruhl’s luminous take on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. My review is on KQED Arts.
Letters Entertain You
Playwright Sarah Ruhl and director Les Waters reunite to bring to life the lifelong correspondence between poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. My review of Dear Elizabeth at Berkeley Rep is up at KQED Arts.
Talk About the Passion
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #38: Passion Play, Actors Ensemble of Berkeley, April 22.
Going to Moscow?
The luminous playwright Sarah Ruhl has been a frequent visitor to the Bay Area, and to Berkeley Repertory Theatre in particular, where director Les Waters helmed her breathtaking Eurydice and Glickman Award-winning In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), which went on to become her Broadway debut. Now, just as Actors Ensemble of Berkeley is giving her mammoth Passion Play its belated West Coast premiere across town, Ruhl and Waters are reunited at Berkeley Rep with Ruhl’s new version of Anton Chekhov’s 1901 classic Three Sisters.
