Friday, October 19, 2018
Michael Moran Acts, Directs a Rockin’ Shakespeare by Barry David Horwitz It takes a lot of cojones to act, direct, and produce Hamlet in a storefront in downtown Oakland, at The Flight Dec…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:23PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
J.T. Rogers Recreates Story of Negotiator Who Cares by Barry David Horwitz In “Oslo,” a spectacular docudrama about the Palestine/Israeli negotiations in 1993, J.T. Rogers inserts friend…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 08:01PMThursday, September 27, 2018
Edward Albee’s Thriller Breaks All Rules by Barry David Horwitz Some productions just go beyond our fondest expectations. That magical moment happens when superb, thoughtful acting, skille…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 05:41PMSaturday, September 22, 2018
Young Jean Lee Reincarnates Faith in Song and Dance by Barry David Horwitz Crowded Fire’s intimate stage is now the pulpit of a church, with soaring ceilings and high church windows. It’…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 08:26PMFriday, September 21, 2018
Chisa Hutchinson Celebrates Two Black Women in Crisis by Barry David Horwitz Two black women are struggling over life and death. One is a wealthy woman in hospice care who is dying of cancer…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:23PMMonday, September 17, 2018
Lucas Hnath Updates, Invigorates Ibsen Classic by Barry David Horwitz When in the history of plays has a young writer taken on a hundred plus years old classic and written a “Part 2”? Th…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 05:20AMMonday, September 10, 2018
Dominique Morisseau Aims for Motown Glory by Barry David Horwitz In Detroit in the long hot summer of 1967, the political winds are burning hot—under Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:40PMThursday, August 30, 2018
Shakespeare & Ting Thrust into Present, Spectacularly by Barry David Horwitz Cal Shakes Artistic Director Eric Ting and Dramaturge Philippa Kelly have condensed four Shakespeare plays in…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 01:56AMThursday, August 23, 2018
Lynn Rosen Pits Freaks against Geeks by Barry David Horwitz What motivates a proofreader in a sweltering ad agency to huddle in a parka at her desk and shun her fellow workers? It’s the cl…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 06:29AMTuesday, August 14, 2018
Vanessa Flores’ New Women Take Over Comedy by Barry David Horwitz So….we think men, males, boys, those guys, dudes, bros are indispensable? Well, think again. Playwright Vanessa Flores m…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 12:44PMMonday, July 30, 2018
Dan Hoyle Draws Laughter from Digital Lunacy by Barry David Horwitz In his new version of “Each and Every Thing,” Dan Hoyle hits pay dirt with his warm, winning personality, his down hom…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:22AMTuesday, July 24, 2018
Jacobs-Jenkins’ Modern Morality Stirs Our Souls by Barry David Horwitz “Everybody” puts our isolated lives on the griddle. Britney Frasier, a brilliant and baffling God, puts us all in…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:29PMTuesday, May 22, 2018
Lynne Kaufman Delights with Nobel Geniuses by Barry David Horwitz Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, real life scientists, worked at an Israeli University—Amos, a mathematician and Daniel, …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:48AMThursday, May 17, 2018
Kushner & Taccone Make Magnificent Miracles by Barry David Horwitz In “Perestroika,” Part Two of Angels in America, playwright Tony Kushner and director Tony Taccone take us on world…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:01AMMonday, May 14, 2018
Heidi Schreck’s Personalized U.S. History Delivers the Goods by Barry David Horwitz Heidi Schreck plays the Constitution like a Stradavarius, lyrically deploying Amendments in defense of t…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 07:35PMSaturday, May 5, 2018
Suzan-Lori Parks Updates Civil War Slavery and Freedom by Barry David Horwitz In “Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts I, II, III)” Susan-Lori Parks alarms us with a slave named Hero w…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:59PMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Kushner & Taccone Magically Make “More Life!” by Barry David Horwitz Part One: “Millennium Approaches” More than 25 years ago, I saw the first production of Angels in America at …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 11:45PMMonday, April 30, 2018
Bathsheba Doran Titillates Jewish-Black Passions by Barry David Horwitz In “The Mystery of Love and Sex,” daddy’s little girl Charlotte (bouncy Linda Maria Girón) and her troubled fri…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:16PMWednesday, April 25, 2018
Jonathan Spector Exposes Private School Pretense by Barry David Horwitz I highly recommend taking BART to Downtown Berkeley, and enjoying “Eureka Day,” a hilarious and wise comedy by loc…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:54PMThursday, April 19, 2018
David Gerard, Master Magician, Enchants & Seduces by Barry David Horwitz When personable, mysterious, lithe David Gerard re-enters the small stage at PianoFight, after having introducing…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:24PMMonday, March 19, 2018
Terrence McNally Whips Up a Golden Egg by Barry David Horwitz “It’s Only a Play” mixes all the jokes and clichés about theater we’ve ever heard. Like circling vultures, the playwrig…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:13PMCaryl Churchill Spins the Numbers Game by Barry David Horwitz Behind a low, white circular barrier, suggesting a petri dish, an anxious son confronts his worried father. In her shocking play…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:46AMSunday, March 18, 2018
Bryony Lavery, Tina Taylor Sing of Seafaring Women by Barry David Horwitz The British nuclear submarine silently shadowed the Russian sub Kursk, on 12 August 2000. In fact, there were three …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 02:30PMFriday, March 9, 2018
John Fisher Ridicules Our Glorious Leader, with Gusto by Barry David Horwitz In John Fisher’s no-holds-barred political satire “Transitions,” disruption rules the day. Fisher, himself,…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 09:11AMMonday, February 26, 2018
Smith, May, Lo, & Frazier Invoke Inspiring Heroes by Barry David Horwitz There’s a lot to like in “Between Us,” the four short plays I saw on Sunday afternoon at Live Oak Park Thea…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 08:55PMThursday, February 22, 2018
Patricia Milton’s Comedy Pits Southern Comforts v. Black Values by Barry David Horwitz Central Works has scored again with their World Premiere #58. Director Gary Graves has burnished Pa…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 02:48AMThursday, February 8, 2018
Lucas Hnath’s Dramedy Scales Shakespearean Heights by Barry David Horwitz “This is a man …” says the anxious man in suit and tie, pacing poolside, and pointing at a blond, muscled sw…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:12PMTuesday, February 6, 2018
George Bernard Shaw Explodes Middle Class Morality by Barry David Horwitz Bernard Shaw is back, and he’s alive and hilarious at Aurora Theatre. Aurora’s revival of Shaw’s unique blend …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 07:38PMSunday, February 4, 2018
Tim Pinckney Enlists Millennials in AIDS Army by Barry David Horwitz Here, at last, we have a new play that melds the 80s with the present and shows how one man’s struggle against AIDS con…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 09:03PMMonday, January 22, 2018
Harold Pinter’s ‘Common Man’ Manipulated by Mom & Mafia by Barry David Horwitz “The Birthday Party” (1958), by Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter, is a scary “comedy of menace�…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 09:38PMFriday, January 19, 2018
Hershey Felder Plays Tchaikovsky, Masterfully by Barry David Horwitz Hershey Felder has come to Theatreworks to embody Tchaikovsky. When Felder, as Tchaikovsky, plays for the Opening Night o…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:42PM 
