Building a Better Mikado
For a while I’ve been grappling with how I’d deal with The Mikado the next time I had to review it.
An Enchanted April in Pleasanton
A new musical version of Enchanted April premieres in Pleasanton.
Read my review in the Mercury News. Read more
The Women: It’s All About Men
Clare Booth Luce’s snappy 1930s comedy about women and their man problems plays at Point Richmond’s Masquers Playhouse.
My review is in the Contra Costa Times and other BANG papers. Read more
He’s Crafty
There’s nothing like a devilish prankster to liven up your summer. Just a couple years after ACT brought Bill Irwin’s version of Molière’s Scapin, Porchlight brings you another modernized version, Scapino! My review‘s in the Marin Independent Journal.
Good Bad King
Marin Shakespeare Company gave Shakespeare’s King John a rare staging–perhaps the first production in Marin–and I reviewed it in today’s Marin Independent Journal. And I didn’t even mention that he’s my 26th-great-grandfather! No conflict of interest there, no sir.
Maybe This Time
This production of Cabaret by Independent Cabaret Productions/Shakespeare at Stinson hits Larkspur this weekend after a run at Fort Mason, and my review is there to welcome it in today’s Marin Independent Journal. So click on the link to check it out before it dissolves into the deepest recesses of the web.
Prospero’s Bots
I wrote up Jon Tracy’s steampunk reinvention of The Tempest for today’s Marin Independent Journal, and you can see what I thought of it over yonder.
