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  • Dear Frenemy

    Dear Frenemy

    December 5, 2016

    A musical twist on The Shop Around the Corner charms at SF Playhouse. 

  • Cooking up Trouble

    Cooking up Trouble

    October 4, 2016

    Theresa Rebeck gets deep inside kitchen politics.

  • The Apartment, the Musical

    The Apartment, the Musical

    November 24, 2014

    Neil Simon and Burt Bacharach made The Apartment into a musical, and I wish they hadn’t.

  • Writing to Type

    Writing to Type

    June 14, 2014

    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…

  • Pursuing Bauer

    Pursuing Bauer

    April 3, 2014

    “I was reflecting on how we got here,” Bauer says at the beginning, and that sums up the next hour and a half.

  • 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.

  • What Are They Building in There

    What Are They Building in There

    November 19, 2013

    Aaron Loeb’s latest play in San Francisco Playhouse’s Sandbox Series of second-stage world premieres, Ideation is a suspenseful and hilarious business-world thriller.

  • It’s About Time

    It’s About Time

    March 5, 2013

    The latest Sandbox premiere very much keeps things in the SF Playhouse family.

  • It’s a Motherfucker

    It’s a Motherfucker

    February 6, 2013

    The San Francisco Playhouse gives Stephen Adly Guigis’s The Motherfucker with the Hat its West Coast premiere, and it’s a motherfucker of a show.

  • Embarrassment of Riches

    Embarrassment of Riches

    December 30, 2012

    Boy, this was a hard year to reduce to a Top Ten. When I look over the list of the 117 shows I attended…

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