Can’t Start a Fire Without a Spark

29 September, 2014 Theater No comments
Can’t Start a Fire Without a Spark

Lauren Gunderson’s latest play explores the near-impossibility of love under state-sponsored repression. My review is on KQED Arts.

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Blood Red, White and Blue

Blood Red, White and Blue

The presidential debates are upon us, Election Day is just a few weeks away, and two local theater companies are getting into the spirit of the thing by staging gleefully perverse musicals about the U.S. presidency.

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Missed Connections

Missed Connections

Intersection for the Arts and company-in-residence Campo Santo are on a roll. Having debuted Chinaka Hodge’s marvelous Mirrors in Every Corner this February, they’re now introducing another impressive young emerging playwright with Sharif Abu-Hamdeh’s Habibi. This is no coincidence. The result of long development processes through Campo Santo’s new play lab, these plays constitute a sort of trilogy of world premieres by first-time playwrights, along with Dennis Kim’s New Tree Legends next fall.

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The Drums of War

17 September, 2010 Theater No comments
The Drums of War

 

THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY

Show #93: The Salt Plays, Part One: In the Wound, Shotgun Players, September 11.

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A Thousand Stories Deep

A Thousand Stories Deep

THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY

Show #63: 1001, Just Theater, May 31

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Give That Girl a Hand

Give That Girl a Hand

Show #30: Handless, Ragged Wing Ensemble, March 5.

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