• Sex and Death

    Sex and Death

    Cutting Ball’s Sidewinders and Symmetry Theatre’s Carnival Round the Central Figure can be boiled down to very simple thesis statements.

  • The Language of Love

    The Language of Love

    The Language Archive is easily summarized by one bit of breezy irony: A linguist can’t find the words to save his marriage.

  • The Hard Sell

    The Hard Sell

    Gender equality in the business world is a vitally important, touchy subject that warrants a lot of discussion and exploration and rectifying, onstage and…

  • Inquiring Minds

    Inquiring Minds

    A recent transplant to San Francisco from Georgia by way of New York, playwright Lauren Gunderson has taken the Bay Area by storm.  Her…

  • Lo Riders

    THEATER REVIEW: SAN JOSE Show #39: Lolita Roadtrip, San Jose Stage Company, April 24.

  • Oh Brother

    Show #114: Dead Man’s Wake, West Coast Arts Foundation, October 29.