crowded fire – The Idiolect

Edie’s Got a Gun

The kids are all right, all by themselves.

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…

She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange features four people sitting around in a park making awkward small talk for 75 minutes.

The Taming is easily the best thing I’ve seen from playwright Lauren Gunderson since Exit, Pursued by a Bear.

Dance Dance Revolution in the Chinese Land of the Dead? That’s Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s 410[GONE] at Crowded Fire Theater.

A bourgeois family blithely, cheerily makes one jaw-droppingly bad decision after another in order to maintain its expensive lifestyle.

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…