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  • Cooking up Trouble

    Cooking up Trouble

    October 4, 2016

    Theresa Rebeck gets deep inside kitchen politics.

  • Cymbeline for Philistines

    Cymbeline for Philistines

    July 8, 2015

    Marin Shakes’s Cymbeline is a madcap hodgepodge — and a musical.

  • Return of the Prodigal Son

    Return of the Prodigal Son

    June 4, 2015

    Playwright Luis Alfaro returns to Magic Theatre with the start of an epic American trilogy.

  • What’s Going On

    What’s Going On

    April 7, 2014

    Scottish playwright Linda McLean’s back with another disturbing play at the Magic, and it’s a weird one.

  • God and Mammon

    God and Mammon

    December 22, 2013

    When I saw John Patrick Shanley’s latest play at San Francisco Playhouse, my take-away was that this guy isn’t really a playwright.

  • Buried Child Revived

    Buried Child Revived

    September 18, 2013

    Magic Theatre brings back one of its most famous premieres, 35 years later.

  • Mother’s Way

    Mother’s Way

    May 30, 2013

    Mark Jackson directs Martin McDonagh’s often hilarious, aching and brutal portrait of a needy and manipulative elderly mother and her resentful 40-year-old daughter/caretaker.

  • Hot Shot Time Machine

    Hot Shot Time Machine

    February 3, 2013

    Hey, who am I? Who are you? What are we doing here? What’s this needle doing in my arm? And shouldn’t there be a…

  • Body Slam Poetry

    September 6, 2012

    It’s not often that you see a guy in a Mexican wrestling mask just sitting in the audience at the theater, but then, it’s…

  • 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…

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