Burying the Glengarry Leads
TheatreFIRST revives a typically testosterone-fueled Mamet classic (the first of three local theaters to stage Glengarry Glen Ross in a few months).
My review is in the Oakland Tribune and other BANG papers. Read more
What’s It All About, Alpie?
Acid Test: The Many Incarnations of Ram Dass is a relative rarity for the Marsh—a solo show not written by the performer. Local writer Lynne Kaufman’s first one-person play, follows the spiritual teacher (and former Marin County resident) on a long, strange series of trips, hallucinogenic and otherwise, that took him from being young Harvard professor Richard Alpert to “Be Here Now” guru Ram Dass.
Billie con Carnage
I have not one but two reviews in today’s Marin Independent Journal: Cinnabar Theater’s rollicking revival of Born Yesterday, featuring a hilarious Heather Gordon as Billie Dawn, and Marin Theatre Company doing Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage just a couple of months after San Jose Rep gave the play its local premiere. So what are you waiting for? Click on the links in that first sentence to read all about ’em.
Frustrating Coworkers Are Frustrating
It’s hard not to compare the world premiere of What We’re Up Against to the last (and first) time artistic director Loretta Greco staged a Theresa Rebeck play at Magic Theatre, with 2009’s Mauritius, a whip-smart crime caper about rare stamps with funny, rapid-fire Mametian dialogue. The comparison is more tempting still because more than half the cast of the new play–Rod Gnapp, Warren David Keith and James Wagner–was in the prior production.
