cliff caruthers – The Idiolect

Tell Me of Your Dreaming

Cal Shakes goes back to the Golden Age of Spanish drama with Life Is a Dream.

Frederick Douglass meets Donald Rumsfeld in Andrew Saito’s Mount Misery.

Paris youth are revolting in Cutting Ball’s verbose dystopian French play.

Marin Theatre Company’s Lasso of Truth seems like it was pretty much made for me.

Ubu Roi can be an irritating classic, but Cutting Ball justifies its ubu-quity.

Gidion’s Knot is a hard play to take.

The weirdness just gets weirder once Krispy Kritters in the Scarlett Night actually starts.

California Shakespeare Theater’s season opener, Richard Montoya’s American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, is completely bonkers.

Walter Wells is happy. Way, way too happy. So happy that you know that playwright Julie Marie Myatt has it in for him in The Happy…

Anthony Clarvoe’s Our Practical Heaven is a sentimental journey oddly devoid of emotion.