Once more unto the breach! Hitting the road for Ashland tomorrow. My annual OSF marathon begins, officially launching SUMMER vacation, if you are a theater critic and your idea of down time …
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:41PMNew play maven Meredith McDonough is leaving TheatreWorks to become associate artistic director at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. The gifted McDonough ran the troupe’s prestigiou…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:09PMTerrence McNally’s “Corpus Christi,” often dubbed the gay Jesus play, has been sparking controversy since it debuted in New York 14 years ago. Now a new documentary about a…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:49PMThe explosive Iraq war drama “Black Watch,” staged by the National Theatre of Scotland, and the world premiere of the hip-hop opera “Stuck Elevator” will headline the…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:39PMForty of the country’s hottest playwrights will converge at Berkeley Rep’s new summer theater lab at the Ground Floor, the troupe’s Center for the Creation and Development …
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:13PMFrom his Amazon riff “21 Dog Years” to his Apple expose “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” Mike Daisey has always had his finger on the pulse of dotcom cu…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:16PMMojitos all around! You are cordially invited to our Twitter Happy Hour tomorrow from 4 p.m. to 5 in the Twitterverse. We’ll be chatting about “Hunger Games” and “Ame…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:59PMThe world premiere of the ’80s flashback “Diner” musical and the Broadway revival of the tap-happy “Anything Goes” are among the highlights of the 2012-13 SHN s…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:39PMJensen Ackles, FTW, baby! Now, a theater critic may well have no business beseeching fangirls to vote in a TV CRUSH contest but a fangirl’s work is never done! Smitten as I am with Jen…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:27PMLive long and prosper, people. Trekkies and other assorted devotees of the Shatnerian oeuvre (from Captain Kirk to Denny Crane) won’t want to miss my Storify on William Shatner here. T…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:27PMBottoms up! It’s always cocktail hour somewhere so join all of us A&E critics at the MERC and BANG for our very first Twitter Happy Hour today at 4. Want to plug a new project, dis…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:11PMThe Shat hits the fan! William Shatner will boldly go where he has never gone before in the one-man show “Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It” The Canadian-born pop culture icon who ha…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:13PMRajiv Joseph’s “The North Pool” is the winner of the 2011 Glickman Award. Joseph, a master craftsman nominated for the Pulitzer for the Iraq drama “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,�…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:38PMPondering the best and brightest and bombs of the theatrical year made me realize how many flat-out wonderful folks I’ve gotten to interview on this best-of-all-possible beats recently…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:09PMTop Ten Theatrical Events for 2011 Top Ten Lists are notoriously thorny to pin down and this year was harder than ever. 2011 was dominated by headline-grabbing star turns from the lik…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:08PMThe unstoppable Eve Ensler is best known as an activist and playwright who has parlayed her tremendous success with “The Vagina Monologues” into a formidable one-woman political …
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:31PMNow, no one is a bigger Princess Leia fan than yours truly. I actually think the Cinnabun hairdo is attractive and I used to coo to my pet cat Robie in honor of the scifi fairytale (…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:16PMSummer’s lease hath all too short a date, indeed. I can hardly believe that the summer Shakespeare season is at an end. For me it’s not really summer until the annual roadtrip to…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:31PMIt’s not easy being green, not to mention foul-smelling, bad-tempered and crotchety, but “Shrek” still managed to steal the hearts of the next generation. To many in the lu…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:10PMLong before John Malkovich made his name as one of the most versatile and ingenious actors in Hollywood, he was a star of the American stage. Now, I may be biased because I am a theater crit…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:33PMMike Daisey stole my Imac! Well, not literally maybe but the gifted monologuist has severely undercut the bliss I used to feel clicking and whooshing around the piece of electronic s…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:22PMCrushing news today that John Malkovich, an actor I have ever so long venerated as a truly insightful artist as well as an uniquely idiosyncratic character, will NOT be giving interviews abo…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:01PMYou are cordially invited to spend a few hours basking in the glow of Rita Moreno. Tony Taccone’s lovely tribute to the star, “Life Without Makeup,” will delight anyone any…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:34PMThe famously elusive Edward Albee, arguably the greatest American playwright of his generation, made the scene at the Aurora Theatre Company’s sublime revival of his 1967 Pulitzer winn…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:07PMCalling all Guilty Ones! This is a heads-up that “Spring Awakening” is about to bloom in San Jose once more. Only this time it’s not the national tour we’re talking a…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:17PMOne of the very few performers to have scored the coveted EGOT (winning an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony) Rita Moreno has been a celeb since the Golden Age of Hollywood. From her Acade…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:56PMReady, set, get your fringe on. Hard-core culture vultures and assorted hipsters will rejoice that it’s time for the 20th annual San Francisco Fringe Festival. One of the oldest alternativ…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:22PMCracked open a pile of mail today to find this juicy bite of glossy DVD nirvana: Supernatural Season 6!!! I know I am a self-respecting theater critic but I must admit that I took a moment t…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:17PMSing out, Hugh! Aussie hottie Hugh Jackman will be on Facebook for a live streaming Q&A just hours before his new solo show opens in SF Wednesday. If you want to poke Wolverine, as it we…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:02PM“Memphis,” the downhome Broadway musical that began life at TheatreWorks before wowing the Great White Way and winning the 2010 Tony for best musical is coming to a cinema near y…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:59PMKudos to Bruce Norris’ “Clybourne Park” which just won the 2011 Pulitzer for best drama. The nervy riff on “A Raisin in the Sun,” which Jon Moscone directed t…
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