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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Show #36: Truce, Vanguardian Productions, March 24.
One of only two legally blind actors in the United States with MFAs in acting, Marilee Talkington is not yet, she explains, totally blind. Due to hereditary rod-cone dystrophy, Talkington has zero vision of what she looks at directly, but at least has some small peripheral vision, which...
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Show #35: …And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi, Cutting Ball, March 21.
I wrote up this one for the Marin Independent Journal, so check out the review here. (Excuse all my meticulously dot-dot-dotted ellipses turning into És–that’s just technology making our lives easier yet again.) Also be sure to check the show out, because it’s tremendous.
…And Jesus...
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Show #33 Sunsets and Margaritas, TheatreWorks March 14.
Dena Martinez, Roxane Carrasco, Tommy
Gomez and Daniel Valdez. Photo by Tracy Martin
“Well, that was a completely wasted Sunday afternoon,” I told a colleague last week.
“Oh man, I’m sorry,” said the colleague in question, who had seen the same show at its Saturday opening. “I should...
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Show #34: HyperReal, Sara Kraft/KraftyWork, March 18.
Multimedia theater artist Sara Kraft’s HyperReal takes as its starting point the life-changing traumatic experience of seeing Jaws as a four-year-old–followed close at heels by the first glimpse of a real ocean, an unfortunate accident and an ill-considered Universal Studios tour–and spins it out into a dizzying treatise...
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Show #32: Den of Thieves, SF Playhouse, March 13.
Stephen Adly Guirgis has been good to SF Playhouse. The provocative 2006 West Coast premiere of Our Lady of 121st Street and 2007 production of Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train were standout hits of past seasons, so the Bay Area premiere of a new Guirgis play...
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Show #31: Juliet, San Francisco State University, March 12.
In between his highly stylized professional shows such as his recent Faust Part 1 and Macbeth at Shotgun Players, playwright/director Mark Jackson returns frequently to his alma mater San Francisco State to direct students in the theater department, as he did last year with...
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Show #30: Handless, Ragged Wing Ensemble, March 5.
Ragged Wing Ensemble’s new play Handless is based on the folk tale “The Handless Maiden,” and it’s very true to the meandering form of fairy tales, full of twists and turns and quests, which is another way to say that it’s two and a half hours...
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Show #29: Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, March 3.
Oy vey, this play. There’s a lot of interesting subject matter in Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s world premiere of Naomi Iizuka’s Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West about the introduction of photography to Japan in the 1800s, but what we get...
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