christopher chen – The Idiolect

Peeling the Onion of Truth

Christopher Chen’s Caught at Shotgun Players keeps peeling the onion of untruths.

“For the most part, you actually can’t get an agent, you are gotten by an agent.”

Christopher Chen borrows from fabulist Italo Calvino to create a dizzying web of fantastical fragments about marriage.

The sheer volume of great theater going on around the Bay Area can be daunting. I’ve picked out a few likely standouts to get…

Christopher Chen’s satirical comedy takes on race politics in America.

Yesterday I met up with fellow critics Karen D’Souza of the San Jose Mercury News, Robert Hurwitt of the San Francisco Chronicle, Rob Avila…

Boy, this was a hard year to reduce to a Top Ten. When I look over the list of the 117 shows I attended…

It doesn’t matter how much I talk about The Hundred Flowers Project; there’s no way I can adequately capture the dueling senses of chaos…