Police State of Panic
The San Francisco Mime Troupe makes musical comedy out of grim police violence.
Read my review in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Oh Pioneers
If there’s a lesson to be learned from Mona Mansour’s new play about the limitations of the pioneer spirit, it’s that pluck and optimism will only take you so far.
Read my review in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Methed-up Fellowship
A Frodo-obsessed wannabe gangster, a rampaging bear on meth, and an escaped senior citizen with dementia.
My review of Ignacio Zulueta’s comedy The Fellowship is in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
A Garbled Communiqué
Paris youth are revolting in Cutting Ball’s verbose dystopian French play. My review‘s in the Marin Independent Journal.
Crude “Oil” Needs Refining
The San Francisco Mime Troupe’s summer show is necessarily done on the cheap this year, and from the looks of it it’s a rush job all around. My review is in today’s Marin Independent Journal.
A Fracking Shame
Shotgun Players has doubled down on its commitment to new plays lately. Last year’s 20th-anniversary season was entirely made up of commissioned world premieres, and after an impressively solid production of Tom Stoppard’s Voyage this spring, Shotgun unveils another commission. The Great Divide is a modern take on Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play An Enemy of the People, updated to focus on current hot-button environmental issues. The playwright is Adam Chanzit, whose play Down to This closed in a Sleepwalkers Theatre production in San Francisco the same weekend this show opened in Berkeley.
Mad as a Hatter
I reviewed AlterTheater’s commissioned world premiere of a Lauren Yee play in today’s Marin Independent Journal, so hie thee over yonder to check it out.
