Disturbed in the Suburbs
Lisa D’Amour’s dark comedy gnaws at the unease lurking beneath suburban life.
Read my review on KQED Arts. Read more
Faust Talking
So Hamlet, Martin Luther and Doctor Faustus walk into a college, and that thing’s the play.
My review of Wittenberg at Aurora Theatre Company is on KQED Arts. Read more
What Are They Building in There
Aaron Loeb’s latest play in San Francisco Playhouse’s Sandbox Series of second-stage world premieres, Ideation is a suspenseful and hilarious business-world thriller. You can read my review on KQED Arts.
Oh Brother
The new issue of Theatre Bay Area is out! And it features the full script of Josh Costello’s stage adaptation of Cory Doctorow’s novel Little Brother, a play I reviewed for the Marin IJ a year ago when it premiered at Custom Made Theatre Co. Here’s my editor’s note for the January/February issue, and my interview with Josh about the play should be up on the site in a week or two. Also in this issue, we profile composer Marcus Shelby and playwright Christopher Chen, and Impact Theatre‘s Melissa Hillman talks about how the concept of color-blind casting is a load of nonsense.
Embarrassment of Riches
Boy, this was a hard year to reduce to a Top Ten. When I look over the list of the 117 shows I attended in 2012, eight strike me as shoo-ins for the list, and then there are fifteen other shows vying for the remaining two slots. Mind you, that’s a good problem to have; there really was a lot of good theater in the Bay Area this year—and, of course, some so-so and not very good theater as well. And of course there’s not any inherent virtue in the vast theaterscape of 2012 being reducible to a list in the first place, so maybe I should quit my kvetching, suck it up, and get to it. Although I’m restricting myself to ten, these shows aren’t ranked or numbered and are listed in chronological order.
As Twere a Careless Trifle
What’s a young San Francisco hipster to do with a fancy degree and no motivation to get a real job? Well, how about invade a small, obscure and presumably defenseless island nation?
Who Watches Big Brother?
I reviewed Josh Costello’s adaptation of Cory Doctorow’s novel Little Brother for today’s Marin Independent Journal.
Head over there to read all about it before the review expires or becomes otherwise unlinkable. (Short version: I liked it. It’s good. Go see it.) Read more
Whatever Happened to Baby Eva?
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #44: Reborning, SF Playhouse, May 12.
