Grad School by Design

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.

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Dont Be Absurd

Dont Be Absurd

The Cutting Ball Theater is big on the avant-garde classics, and now it unveils a new translation of Eugène Ionesco’s The Chairs that can be hard to sit through. My review‘s in today’s Marin Independent Journal.

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Shift Happens

Shift Happens

The New Settlers would like to show you their compound before a cosmic rift splits reality asunder and they cross over to build a New America on the other side. Welcome to Mugwumpin’s latest collaboratively developed theater piece puts you right in the thick of…something. I give you the full report at KQED Arts.

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Blood Red, White and Blue

Blood Red, White and Blue

The presidential debates are upon us, Election Day is just a few weeks away, and two local theater companies are getting into the spirit of the thing by staging gleefully perverse musicals about the U.S. presidency.

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