Altered Shepard

AlterTheater revives Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love in a San Rafael storefront, directed by the play’s original Old Man, where it will run in repertory with Marisela Treviño Orta’s The River Bride. My review is in today’s Marin Independent Journal.
Bride of Fishingstein

It’s my first show of the year, and it’s a good one: Marisela Treviño Orta’s lyrical fairytale set in a Brazilian fishing village.
My review of AlterTheater’s The River Bride is in today’s Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Don’t Hate the Player

First impressions count for a lot. In Dan Wilson’s new play Just One More Game, Marjorie and Kent have met through an online matchmaking site and are on their first date. Both are fortysomething gamers, not just for fun but as a profession. She reviews videogames under a pseudonym and he works on them as a programmer. That means that in addition to the usual feeling out of whether the other person is some kind of creep, there are also a lot of tests or whether each other are real geeks or some kind of poseurs.
Well Hello, Dali

I’ve had to take a break from the blog the last couple of weeks for a wide assortment of reasons, but I do have a review in today’s Marin Independent Journal, of AlterTheater’s production of Jose Rivera’s References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot.