Double Your Fun
Impact Theatre’s Looney Tunes Comedy of Errors is a riot.
Read my review in the San Jose Mercury News. Read more
Trail and Error
The westward migration, the video game, the stage play:
My review of The Oregon Trail is in the Oakland Tribune and other Bay Area News Group papers. Read more
Choppy Choppy
Berkeley’s Impact Theatre has a taste for blood, particularly in its Shakespeare productions but also in the new plays that make up most of its fare. So it’s hardly surprising that its latest assemblage of short plays, Bread and Circuses, is themed around violence as entertainment. In fact it’s really an appreciation of Impact as a company, with most of the shorts written by playwrights who’ve done full-length works with the theater in the past, including
Steve Yockey, Lauren Yee, Prince Gomolvilas, Lauren Gunderson and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Read more
Out of the Woods (and into the Bar)
Impact Theatre gets gender-bent with an As You Like It where Celia’s a dude, them Dukes are double dutchesses, the melancholy Jaques is a female hipster, and the forest of Arden is a Northern California bar. I give you
a full report over on KQED Arts. Read more
Muskrat Love
It may or may not be the end of the world. Certainly there are a lot of frogs and locusts out there, and all the trees are falling down. But work goes on at Tower Labs, where some sort of top-secret pharmaceutical project is underway—if you can really call it work when the sole researcher has locked himself in the lab and refuses to let the manager, receptionist or new developer in while he paces around trying to do the work himself, even though he’s not qualified to develop the drug himself.
High School Confrontational
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #109: The Chalk Boy, Impact Theatre, November 5.
For the Love of the Game
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #80: Of Dice and Men, Impact Theatre, September 2.
