patrick russell – The Idiolect

Writing to Type

The story takes place among wealthy Manhattanites, which is as much a default setting for plays as L.A. is for movies, and for pretty…

Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, Texas-style? Sure, why not?

The surprise of Neil LaBute’s reasons to be pretty is that it’s almost upbeat.

I’m maybe not the best audience for Wilder Times, Aurora Theatre Company’s assemblage of four short plays by Wilder, two from 1962 and two…

Othello, the Moor of Venice, Marin Theatre Company.

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

It’s hard enough dealing with grief when you understand what happened, and why and how it happened, but when what’s happening to someone you…

Alice Childress’s play Trouble in Mind feels both very much of its time and ahead of it. First presented off-Broadway in 1955, a month…