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  • We Don’t Need Another White Savior

    We Don’t Need Another White Savior

    June 15, 2016

    AlterTheater goes deep into the question of who gets to tell the story of a people’s struggle.

  • Altered Shepard

    Altered Shepard

    January 23, 2014

    AlterTheater revives Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love in a San Rafael storefront, directed by the play’s original Old Man.

  • The Friendly Ghost

    The Friendly Ghost

    May 1, 2013

    AlterTheater’s latest world premiere, by 90-year-old Marin theater veteran Ann Brebner, proves a sweet depiction of a family helping each other through grief.

  • This List Goes to ’11

    December 24, 2011

    It’s a good problem to have: Looking over the list of the 118 local shows I saw this year, I had a hard time…

  • We’re a Happy Family

    October 8, 2011

    “Happy families are all alike,” Leo Tolstoy writes in Anna Karenina; “every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Two classic examples are on…

  • Is She Weird?

    April 14, 2011

    Aurora Theatre Company celebrates Tennessee Williams’s 100th birthday with his lesser-known Summer and Smoke rewrite, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale. Y’all can head on…

  • Declined Intervention

    October 29, 2010

    THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO Show #105: The Sunset Limited, SF Playhouse, October 16.

  • Shedding Light on Sunlight

    January 28, 2010

    I reviewed this one for today’s Marin IJ, so pick up a copy or check it out online.

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