TheatreFirst’s Bold Third Act
Longtime East Bay company TheatreFirst reinvents itself with a bold new mission.
Read my company spotlight for Theatre Bay Area. Read more
Here an Antigone, There an Antigone
Three Bay Area companies adapt the same Greek tragedy at the same time.
Read all about it in my Theatre Bay Area magazine feature. Read more
Hundred Flowers Wins Glickman
Yesterday I met up with fellow critics Karen D’Souza of the San Jose Mercury News, Robert Hurwitt of the San Francisco Chronicle, Rob Avila of the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Chad Jones of Theater Dogs to pick this year’s Glickman Award winner for the best play to premiere in the Bay Area last year.
Oh Brother
The new issue of Theatre Bay Area is out! And it features the full script of Josh Costello’s stage adaptation of Cory Doctorow’s novel Little Brother, a play I reviewed for the Marin IJ a year ago when it premiered at Custom Made Theatre Co. Here’s my editor’s note for the January/February issue, and my interview with Josh about the play should be up on the site in a week or two. Also in this issue, we profile composer Marcus Shelby and playwright Christopher Chen, and Impact Theatre‘s Melissa Hillman talks about how the concept of color-blind casting is a load of nonsense.
