Tell Me of Your Dreaming
Cal Shakes goes back to the Golden Age of Spanish drama with Life Is a Dream.
A Cold-Hearted Romeo
Isn’t it romantic? No, not really.
My review of Marin Shakespeare Company’s Romeo and Juliet is in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Arden Admirers
Marin Shakespeare Company celebrates its 25th year with the ever-popular As You Like It–in period dress, no less!
Read all about it in my review in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Back with a Vengeance
Marin Shakespeare Company digs up the first English revenge tragedy, and it’s awesome. You can find my review in today’s Marin Independent Journal.
Oranges Are Blue
Whatever anyone expected from the first season longtime ACT actor Steven Anthony Jones programmed as artistic director of Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, San Francisco’s most venerable African-American theater company, it probably wasn’t a British play for one African-American and two Caucasian actors. But race and racism come up an awful lot in Blue/Orange, Joe Penhall’s 2000 play that played Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre back in 2005.
Asp You Like It
I’m currently on vacation and not doing much blogging, which would kind of defeat the purpose, but I should probably mention that I have two reviews in today’s Marin Independent Journal. Both North Bay, both Shakespeare, both outdoors, and I caught ’em both last Saturday before I took off.
Doesn’t Look Shrewish
I reviewed Marin Shakes’s Pirates of the Caribbean take on Shakespeare’s problematic comedy in today’s Marin IJ, so what are you waiting for? Check it out.
