Immaculate Mary Poppins
The Broadway musical isn’t the best version of Mary Poppins, but its star at Tri-Valley Rep is practically perfect.
Read my review in the East Bay Times and Mercury News. Read more
Angels in Lafayette
Town Hall takes on part two of Tony Kushner’s epic.
Read my review in the Contra Costa Times. Read more
Modern Stone Age Family
The Skin of Our Teeth shows a wilder side of Thornton Wilder.
Read my review in the San Jose Mercury News and other BANG papers. Read more
Burying the Glengarry Leads
TheatreFIRST revives a typically testosterone-fueled Mamet classic (the first of three local theaters to stage Glengarry Glen Ross in a few months).
My review is in the Oakland Tribune and other BANG papers. Read more
Can’t Start a Fire Without a Spark
Lauren Gunderson’s latest play explores the near-impossibility of love under state-sponsored repression. My review is on KQED Arts.
Boys Will Be Girls
TheatreFIRST reemerges from a producing hiatus to take over Berkeley’s Live Oak Theatre and produce Sarah Ruhl’s luminous take on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. My review is on KQED Arts.
A Maze Amazes
Just Theater is back with not one but two plays in rep, and the first one, A Maze, is pretty freaking remarkable. You can read my review on KQED Arts.
