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  • Grad School by Design

    Grad School by Design

    August 17, 2015

    Is it worth it for theatrical designers to get an MFA?

  • Pageant Nation

    Pageant Nation

    October 16, 2013

    The Taming is easily the best thing I’ve seen from playwright Lauren Gunderson since Exit, Pursued by a Bear.

  • A Maze Amazes

    A Maze Amazes

    July 19, 2013

    Just Theater is back with not one but two plays in rep, and the first one, A Maze, is pretty freaking remarkable.

  • Revolutionary Collaborators

    October 30, 2012

    It doesn’t matter how much I talk about The Hundred Flowers Project; there’s no way I can adequately capture the dueling senses of chaos…

  • You Don’t Know Abulkasem

    You Don’t Know Abulkasem

    September 15, 2012

    Invasion! is a puzzling play. Written by Tunisian-Swedish playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri and translated from the original Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles, it touches upon…

  • Maybe I’m Just Too Behanding

    May 23, 2012

    Bay Area audiences have become familiar with the devilish and often bloody-minded wit of Martin McDonagh over the last decade or two, largely thanks…

  • A Tighter Titus

    March 4, 2012

    Titus Andronicus is William Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy, and for centuries it was also generally considered to be his worst. Although the playwright’s contemporaries loved…

  • The Empathic Duo

    The Empathic Duo

    February 6, 2012

    Before the opening of the Bay Area premiere of Becky Shaw, SF Playhouse artistic director Bill English gave a stirring speech about theater as…

  • Live Through This

    September 29, 2011

    THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO Show #92: Honey Brown Eyes, SF Playhouse, September 27. Show #90: Night over Erzinga, Golden Thread Productions, September 18.

  • For the Love of the Game

    September 23, 2011

    THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Show #80: Of Dice and Men, Impact Theatre, September 2.

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