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The Apartment, the Musical
Neil Simon and Burt Bacharach made The Apartment into a musical, and I wish they hadn’t.
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Writing to Type
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…
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Pursuing Bauer
“I was reflecting on how we got here,” Bauer says at the beginning, and that sums up the next hour and a half.
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God and Mammon
When I saw John Patrick Shanley’s latest play at San Francisco Playhouse, my take-away was that this guy isn’t really a playwright.
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It’s a Motherfucker
The San Francisco Playhouse gives Stephen Adly Guigis’s The Motherfucker with the Hat its West Coast premiere, and it’s a motherfucker of a show.
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Maybe I’m Just Too Behanding
Bay Area audiences have become familiar with the devilish and often bloody-minded wit of Martin McDonagh over the last decade or two, largely thanks…
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But We Regress
French playwright Yasmina Reza seems particularly interested in how small things become blown out of proportion. In her ubiquitous play Art, the close friendship…