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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

He Drives Miss Daisy by Sam Hurwitt

Diablo Actors' Ensemble's production of Driving Miss Daisy keeps on going, even if the company doesn't.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:45PM
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Give Peace a Pass by Sam Hurwitt

You know how people are always wishing for world peace? Well, in this issue they get their wish.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:23PM
Friday, January 24, 2014

The Sky’s Unlimited by Sam Hurwitt

The prolific Lauren Gunderson is back with another play about SCIENCE!

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:21PM

What You Call Porn by Sam Hurwitt

Liberty Bradford Mitchell describes growing up amid the porn industry as the daughter of one of San Francisco's Mitchell Brothers.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:11PM
Thursday, January 23, 2014

Altered Shepard by Sam Hurwitt

AlterTheater revives Sam Shepard's Fool for Love in a San Rafael storefront, directed by the play's original Old Man.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:13PM
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Out of Their League by Sam Hurwitt

A semi-amnesiac Wonder Woman has to earn her way back into the Justice League.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:53AM
Monday, January 20, 2014

A Sketchy Invasion by Sam Hurwitt

Brace yourselves. The comedians are coming.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:00PM
Thursday, January 16, 2014

Bride of Fishingstein by Sam Hurwitt

It's my first show of the year, and it's a good one: Marisela Treviño Orta's lyrical fairytale set in a Brazilian fishing village.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:12AM
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The Origin of Everything by Sam Hurwitt

Having exhausted the ostensibly original content in Wonder Woman #211 last week, we turn our attention to the wealth of reprinted material that filled out that issue’s 100 pages.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 12:35AM
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Twice Told Tales by Sam Hurwitt

It seems like we just had the end of an era, but here we are at the end of another one.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:55AM
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

The Littlest Amazon by Sam Hurwitt

I’ve been looking forward to this one, because the cover is one of my oddball favorites.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:38PM
Friday, December 27, 2013

Ellen’s Honored by Sam Hurwitt

The staged reading of my play Ellen's Undone made Marissa Skudlarek's list of 2013’s Most Memorable Theater Moments!

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:39AM

Northern (High)Lights by Sam Hurwitt

Hey, my Top Five Marin theater productions of 2013 are in today's Marin Independent Journal!

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:25AM
Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Winter Wonder Woman by Sam Hurwitt

’Tis the season to dig up another one of Wonder Woman’s very special Christmas stories from the 1940s.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:01PM
Monday, December 23, 2013

Dogtor Who by Sam Hurwitt

Our dog is freaking adorable, and my wife is a genius.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:27PM
Sunday, December 22, 2013

God and Mammon by Sam Hurwitt

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.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:27PM
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Birthday of the Daleks by Sam Hurwitt

Yeah yeah, this year was the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. But what's much more important is that December 21 is the 50th anniversary of the Daleks, the Doctor's first and greatest enemies.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:42PM
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Gant, Get It Out of My Head by Sam Hurwitt

Edward Gant brings his traveling Victorian freak show of heartbreak to Shotgun's Ashby Stage

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:18PM

Till Kanga Come by Sam Hurwitt

In the mid-1970s, Robert Kanigher continues to recycle stories he wrote way back in the 1940s.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:06AM
Monday, December 16, 2013

My Year of Living Theatrically by Sam Hurwitt

Well, this weekend I saw the last play I'm seeing this year (the 138th!), so I'm ready to unveil my top ten shows of 2013.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:40PM

Enough with the Sex Already by Sam Hurwitt

Alicia Dattner's solo show is a recovery narrative on the rebound from sleeping around too much.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:46PM
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Wonder Wall of China by Sam Hurwitt

Suddenly Wonder Woman was the most old-fashioned comic that DC was putting out in the early 1970s.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 12:52AM
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Pottering Around by Sam Hurwitt

Long-touring British two-man show capitalizing on the popularity of the Harry Potter books comes to town and... eh, it's okay.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:12PM

Hey, Soul Sister by Sam Hurwitt

The mystery of Nubia is at last revealed.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:04AM
Thursday, November 28, 2013

Marley We Roll Along by Sam Hurwitt

Marin Theatre Company's holiday show riffs on Dickens through the dead eyes of Scrooge's partner.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:45PM
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Holiday Showstorm by Sam Hurwitt

Holy ho-ho-the-holly, there are a lot of holiday shows going on right now.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:49PM

Sing the Boys Back Home by Sam Hurwitt

Magic Theatre doesn't do musicals often, but by golly it's doing one now.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:21PM
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

The End of an E.R.A. by Sam Hurwitt

Well, this is it—finally the end of the mod era of Wonder Woman of the late 1960s and early '70s.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:05AM
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

What Are They Building in There by Sam Hurwitt

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.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:51PM
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Sex and Death by Sam Hurwitt

Cutting Ball's Sidewinders and Symmetry Theatre's Carnival Round the Central Figure can be boiled down to very simple thesis statements.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:25PM
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Baby’s Day Out by Sam Hurwitt

Nothing’s really ending, because hardly anything has actually happened in this book.

SOURCE: The Idiolect at 12:02PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic