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  • Yes, I’ve Paid the Price

    Yes, I’ve Paid the Price

    September 17, 2014

    Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn is a play about four women sitting around talking about feminism.

  • God and Mammon

    God and Mammon

    December 22, 2013

    When I saw John Patrick Shanley’s latest play at San Francisco Playhouse, my take-away was that this guy isn’t really a playwright.

  • LaBrutality Beneath the Surface

    LaBrutality Beneath the Surface

    June 26, 2013

    Neil LaBute is known for unflinching depictions of human cruelty, so what happens when he takes on race in the American heartland? This Is…

  • This Must Be the New World

    This Must Be the New World

    April 30, 2013

    Only in New York… or maybe Walnut Creek: Center REP is doing Yussef El Guindi’s cross-cultural romantic comedy Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the…

  • If You’re Happy and You Know It

    If You’re Happy and You Know It

    April 9, 2013

    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…

  • It’s a Motherfucker

    It’s a Motherfucker

    February 6, 2013

    The San Francisco Playhouse gives Stephen Adly Guigis’s The Motherfucker with the Hat its West Coast premiere, and it’s a motherfucker of a show.

  • On the Radio

    On the Radio

    November 29, 2012

    Hey, remember last week when I linked to my feature in the Marin Independent Journal about It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play…

  • Live on Radio on Stage

    November 22, 2012

    I interviewed the cast, director and set designer of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at Marin Theatre Company, and the feature is…

  • It’s a Shame About the War

    It’s a Shame About the War

    February 11, 2012

    It’s clear as soon as you enter the theater at Walnut Creek’s Lesher Center for the Arts that Center REPertory Company is taking a…

  • This List Goes to ’11

    December 24, 2011

    It’s a good problem to have: Looking over the list of the 118 local shows I saw this year, I had a hard time…

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