George and Martha — Sad, Sad, Sad
The booze and barbs flow in Shotgun’s stylized new take on Virginia Woolf.
Read my review in the East Bay Times and Mercury News. Read more
Soup Kitchen Confidential
Shotgun cooks up redemption in soup kitchen drama Grand Concourse.
My review is in the East Bay Times and Mercury News. Read more
Bun in the Oven, Fire in the Loins
Shotgun Players gets uncomfortable with Penelope Skinner’s The Village Bike.
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Razing la Raza
Ubuntu Theater Project’s Más is a stirring, sobering story of ethnic studies under attack.
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The Queen Anne Bible
MTC’s Anne Boleyn radically reenvisions “the harlot queen” as the mother of the Anglican Church.
Read my review in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
C’mon-a Rosemary’s Life
Was there more to Rosemary Clooney than ethnic novelty songs in an egregious Italian accent?
Read my review of Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical in the Contra Costa Times to find out! Read more
Grad School by Design
Is it worth it for theatrical designers to get an MFA? I asked a few in my latest feature for Theatre Bay Area.
Putting the Nick Back in Antigone
Shotgun Players’ Antigonick is the third bold new interpretation of Sophocles’ ancient tragedy Antigone to be produced by a Bay Area theater in the last couple of months.
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Live, Die, Fail
Marin Theatre Company gives us the cheery tale of the untimely deaths of the Fail sisters.
My review of Failure: A Love Story is in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Knot in Your Gut
Gidion’s Knot is a hard play to take. As seen in director Jon Tracy’s brutally effective Bay Area premiere staging at Aurora Theatre Company, Johnna Adams’s drama is 75 minutes of nonstop tension, alleviated only by moments of grim humor.
