Saturday, April 27, 2024
Michael R. Jackson Creates Bold, Black, Queer Meta-Musical by Kim Waldron “A Strange Loop” is a musical about a Black queer writer writing a musical about a Black queer writer, who happe…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:16AMSunday, February 19, 2023
Donlon & Pitt Serve Smorgasbord of Clowning & Mime by Kim Waldron Mimes and clowns on a bare stage—This is live theater, not your 3,264th Netflix movie. Flying Actor Studio founder…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 09:12AMWednesday, February 1, 2023
Stephen Sondheim Dares Us to Look at Our Violence by Kim Waldron “Every now and then the country goes a little wrong,” sings the “Assassins” Proprietor, the tap-dancing Keith Pinto. …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:49PMTuesday, September 13, 2022
Kazu Kusano: There’s No Stopping Her! by Kim Waldron The Fringe Festival is for something different and “Pretty Beast” obliges. Kazu Kusano’s one woman show tells an immigrant stor…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 07:19PMSaturday, September 3, 2022
Joyful Raven’s High-Spirited One-Woman Show Fits the Moment by Kim Waldron Abortion rights are tangled up again. We’ve got access in California, and we’re lucky to have Medicaid to cov…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 01:52PMSaturday, August 13, 2022
Michael Wayne Turner III Shows a Little Madness Is a Good Thing by Kim Waldron First, we see a dandy, one with a vast and classy wardrobe, his face expressive with a ready smile and eloquent…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 07:30PMTuesday, October 13, 2020
Shakespeare Gets Dangerous in Women’s Prison Setting by Kim Waldron “Mischief, thou art afoot,” and it’s thrilling. In Director Phyllida Lloyd’s “Julius Caesar,” the actors app…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:37AMMonday, February 11, 2019
Rogers & Eurice Unleash Classic Comic Conspiracy by Kim Waldron A bearded man in corduroy blazer wanders onstage and flinches when he sees the audience. He fishes for his reading glass…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:22AMSaturday, February 2, 2019
Mary Zimmerman’s Magical Mystery Tour of Myth Returns by Kim Waldron “All magic is about transformation,” master illusionist Eugene Burger once said. Mary Zimmerman’s “Metamorphose…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 11:58PMTuesday, December 11, 2018
Lopez & Marx’s Adult Sesame Street Meets Queer Musical by Kim Waldron “I love the lively ones,” said my friend, after seeing “Avenue Q.” She’s right. Spirited and profane, …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:52AMTuesday, May 22, 2018
Suzan-Lori Parks Sings a Layered Tale by Kim Waldron It’s the rhythm, the music in the language, that captures us. A young man piles up milk crates, tops them with flat cardboard, and lays…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:16AMWednesday, May 9, 2018
Aristophanes & Bousel Hit Home with Greek Slapstick by Kim Waldron Do America’s raging factions disturb you? Does wealth inequality frustrate you? Do you despair over absurd government…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:04PMSunday, April 8, 2018
Addie Ulrey Asks Questions It’s Safer to Ignore by Kim Waldron Nimbly juggling a rifle between bare feet, 13-year-old, bi-gender Montanan Brucie puzzles over dragons while rolling alo…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 11:40PMFriday, March 23, 2018
Simon Stephens’ Science of the Human Heart by Kim Waldron Riding on the London subway, a young woman impulsively kisses a much older man on the neck. Can he trust her? Can we trust them? …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:38PMThursday, March 8, 2018
Alice Birch’s Women Revel in Un-Civil Disobedience by Kim Waldron The career woman wants more time off from work. The young girl is forced to marry her rapist. A woman feels trapped…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 01:42AMMonday, February 19, 2018
A Spellbinding Journey, Unadulterated and Moving by Kim Waldron Ominous jazz music hints at danger, vaguely threatening figures creep in, bent over, shadowy, in a parade choreographed for me…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 08:25AMMonday, January 22, 2018
Athol Fugard’s Homage to Art and Friendship Inspires by Kim Waldron I couldn’t stop staring at the marvelous room on the stage as I waited for the play to begin. The vividly painted gree…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:42PMWednesday, December 13, 2017
Witty Musical Comedy Pornifies Sesame Street by Kim Waldron Songs ranging from “You Can Be as Loud as the Hell You Want (When You’re Makin’ Love)” to “Schadenfreude” to “It S…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 12:49AMMonday, November 20, 2017
Burroughs & Waits’ Bargain with the Devil Fascinates by Kim Waldron “Adult fairy-tale musical” sounds off-kilter, but what better entertainment for off-kilter times? Imaginative wr…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:17AMTuesday, November 7, 2017
Living and Making Art in the Face of Death by Kim Waldron “You’re Going To Die” might be the only place in the USA where death is regularly and easily discussed, then set to really gre…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 12:01AMSaturday, October 21, 2017
David Gerard Conjures a Funny, Magical Evening by Kim Waldron Hip, improvisational, non-stop laughter—words not usually associated with a magician and mind reader, are they? But nothing le…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 08:35PMTuesday, October 17, 2017
Fats Waller and Friends Still Swingin’ and Jivin’ by Kim Waldron Picture two men dressed to the nines, bowler hats to spats, with three women, draped in purple, shimmery green and scar…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 05:06AMWednesday, September 20, 2017
Shakespeare Gets Masterful Acting, Stylish Staging by Kim Waldron At Cal Shakes, Director Tyne Rafaeli has staged a “Measure for Measure” for our time. The striking costumes offer a firs…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:26AMThursday, September 14, 2017
Sherri Rose Offers Advice for an Uncertain World by Kim Waldron Dressed in somber, nondescript slacks and shirt, Sherri Rose works with minimal props in her solo show “How Not to Die.” I…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:02AMTuesday, August 15, 2017
Six One-Act Plays Offer Joy for Everyone by Kim Waldron Need a reminder why we’re lucky to live in San Francisco in these new-monied, small-hearted times? “Pint Sized Plays” provides…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 06:44AMMonday, June 19, 2017
Luna Malbroux Brings Heart & Humor to Social Justice by Kim Waldron Who better to deconstruct white male privilege than a queer Black woman, especially when she’s a gifted comedian? An…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 01:58AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
Bob Merrill’s Bad Girl Goes Good by Kim Waldron Lovers of musicals rhapsodize over how song and dance transform stories into epic events with emotions larger than life. They delight in the…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 05:54PMSaturday, April 1, 2017
Paula Vogel, Jonathan Moscone Make a Magical Mystery Tour by Kim Waldron A fantasia with lots of farcical sex and laughs, “The Baltimore Waltz” ultimately leads us to harsh truth. Kindly…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 08:10AMFriday, March 31, 2017
Shakespeare and Director Glenn Havlan Pull No Punches by Kim Waldron Theater of Others’ “Merchant of Venice” refuses to downplay the bigotry of Shakespeare’s most appealing and sym…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 09:40PMTuesday, March 21, 2017
Mia Chung Tracks Strangers in Strange Lands by Kim Waldron In “You for Me for You,” Playwright Mia Chung and Director M. Graham Smith track two North Korean sisters who are separately fl…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 11:54PMFriday, March 17, 2017
Jewelle Gomez Exposes Our Star-Spangled Bigotry by Kim Waldron Playwright Jewelle Gomez and Director Arturo Catricala bring home a painful truth in the brand new play “Leaving the Blues.…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 06:23PM 
