abra berman – The Idiolect

Dear Frenemy

A musical twist on The Shop Around the Corner charms at SF Playhouse.

Another summer, another Twelfth Night.

Everybody loves a good bad guy.

Is it worth it for theatrical designers to get an MFA?

Marin Shakespeare Company gets Wilde and witty with An Ideal Husband.

Isn’t it romantic? No, not really.

The story takes place among wealthy Manhattanites, which is as much a default setting for plays as L.A. is for movies, and for pretty…

“I was reflecting on how we got here,” Bauer says at the beginning, and that sums up the next hour and a half.

Everything about this Catholic reformatory in New York City circa 1914 suggests that this is a very bad place where nothing good could possibly…

Marin Shakespeare Company digs up the first English revenge tragedy, and it’s awesome.