An August Ensemble
Marin Theatre Company kicks off its 50th season with August: Osage County.
Read my review in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
MTC at 50
Marin Theatre Company looks back on its last 50 years and forward to the next 50.
Read my feature in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Captive Economics
Marin Theatre Company’s hostage drama is a tense thrill ride.
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The Queen Anne Bible
MTC’s Anne Boleyn radically reenvisions “the harlot queen” as the mother of the Anglican Church.
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Divided Loyalties
Danai Gurira’s The Convert is a wrenching battle between traditional culture and colonial “civilization.”
Heavy Viewing
A play about a 600-pound man, performed by a skinny guy in a fat suit, is a tricky proposition.
Read my review of Samuel D. Hunter’s The Whale at Marin Theatre Company in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Live, Die, Fail
Marin Theatre Company gives us the cheery tale of the untimely deaths of the Fail sisters.
My review of Failure: A Love Story is in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
A Lad, Two Lasses and a Lasso
WONDER WEDNESDAY
Marin Theatre Company’s Lasso of Truth seems like it was pretty much made for me. It’s a play about the creator of Wonder Woman (and his wife and their lover), as well as the cultural legacy of America’s favorite superheroine. And yeah, I’m pretty much in the bag for that one from the start. But at the same time I’m a pretty tough room, because I know things about Wonder Woman, to put it mildly. I’d pretty much have to, writing about her past adventures every week.
Amazon Stage
It’s Wonder…Thursday?! Marin Theatre Company unveils Carson Kreitzer’s Wonder Woman play, Lasso of Truth. Read my feature in today’s Marin Independent Journal.
Also, I’ll be taking part in a panel discussion on the legacy of Wonder Woman after the 2pm matinee of Lasso on Saturday, March 1, alongside comic creator and women-in-comics historian Trina Robbins and Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, director of the documentary Wonder Women: The Untold Story of American Superheroines. So that may be a good time to come check it out.
A Reconstruction
Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man sees a wounded Confederate soldier and two of his former slaves scraping together a makeshift Passover seder just a day or two after the Civil War. You know, like you do. Marin Theatre Company gives the play its local premiere, and my review is in today’s Marin Independent Journal.
