Dear Frenemy
A musical twist on The Shop Around the Corner charms at SF Playhouse.
Read my review in the East Bay Times and Mercury News. Read more
School’s in for Summer
The Mime Troupe takes on the privatization of public schools.
Read my review in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Police State of Panic
The San Francisco Mime Troupe makes musical comedy out of grim police violence.
Read my review in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Baking Up a Revolution
S.F. Mime Troupe writer Michael Gene Sullivan whips up a satire about a revolutionary baking circle for Central Works.
Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution
The San Francisco Mime Troupe takes on the class war in San Francisco.
My review of Ripple Effect is in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Sex and Death
Sometimes, no matter how avant-garde a play’s language or structure may be, it can be reduced to a simple thesis statement. Basil Kreimendahl’s Sidewinders, for example, now premiering with the Cutting Ball Theater, boils down to “Binary gender distinctions are overrated.” And Diana Amsterdam’s Carnival Round the Central Figure, produced by Symmetry Theatre Company at Live Oak Theatre, declares in no uncertain terms that people should accept death as part of life and not pretend it isn’t happening.
A Real American Hero
This year’s Mime Troupe show revels in melodrama, casting the greedy investment banker as the strapping hero and the destitute Occupy organizer as the sneering villain. Just like any right-thinking American would! You can read all about it in today’s Marin Independent Journal, available here.
Fundraising Pitch: The Musical
Show #64: 2012–The Musical!, San Francisco Mime Troupe, July 4.
Victor Toman, Cory Censoprano, Siobhan Marie Doherty, Lizzie Calogero and Michael Gene Sullivan in 2012--The Musical.
I reviewed this year’s unusually self-referential Mime Troupe show in the parks in today’s Marin IJ, so g’wan and check it out over there.
2012–The Musical! runs through September 25 in area parks. http://sfmt.org
