Friday, August 23, 2013
Priscilla Queen of the Desert—The Musical combines the two main trends of Broadway musicals: It’s based on a cult movie, and it’s a popsical.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:31PMA stunning local cast makes a sparkling Oscar Wilde classic a must-see at Cal Shakes.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:50PMWednesday, August 21, 2013
Mill Valley's Curtain Theatre puts its usual free Shakespeare in the park aside for a year to do free commedia in the park.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:00PMWonder Woman #196 contained a never-before-published Golden Age Wonder Woman story that was also never reprinted thereafter.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:34AMTuesday, August 20, 2013
TheatreFIRST reemerges from a hiatus to produce Sarah Ruhl's luminous take on Virginia Woolf's Orlando.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:07PMWednesday, August 14, 2013
This is also the last issue by Mike Sekowsky, who’s been our guide for the rest of this mad mod meandering journey.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 12:40AMMonday, August 12, 2013
What's in Sean Owens's Breeches? Witty short plays and droll little songs, plus a whole lot of innuendo.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:50PMRarely have I seen people get so giddy about going to see a play as with No Man’s Land at Berkeley Rep, with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:07PMWednesday, August 7, 2013
Mike Sekowsky isn’t much for mystery; who dunnit is always pretty obvious from the start. And lo and behold, now he decides to do a spooky mystery story!
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:47AMTuesday, August 6, 2013
Let’s get this out of the way first: There is no fantasy club in The Fantasy Club.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:22PMFriday, August 2, 2013
The women in the dialogues are all members of the same circle of friends from college in Tucson, now living in San Francisco or New York.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:20PMThursday, August 1, 2013
Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, Texas-style? Sure, why not?
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:42PMWednesday, July 31, 2013
Wonder Woman and Batman reenact The Prisoner of Zenda in two separate stories.
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From time to time a play is just going to rub you the wrong way.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:42PMFriday, July 26, 2013
The Bay Area is blessed with more than its share of terrific solo theater artists, and new ones are coming out of the woodwork all the time.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:09PMWednesday, July 24, 2013
Being familiar with the source material might help you appreciate the finer points of 50 Shades! The Musical, but the show’s funny enough in its own right that you can pretty easily get t…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:39PMAt last we get to find out just what the heck Tony’s deal is.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:30AMFriday, July 19, 2013
Just Theater is back with not one but two plays in rep, and the first one, A Maze, is pretty freaking remarkable.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:17PMThursday, July 18, 2013
Marin Shakespeare Company digs up the first English revenge tragedy, and it's awesome.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:16PMThe San Francisco Mime Troupe's new show is necessarily done on the cheap, and from the looks of it it's a rush job all around
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:00PMWednesday, July 17, 2013
One thing I appreciate about Mike Sekowsky’s karate-chopping mod run of Wonder Woman is from time to time it would abandon all that and go do some sword-and-sorcery fantasy adventure.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:06AMTuesday, July 16, 2013
Monologist Josh Kornbluth brings along another actor and a live band, but Sea of Reeds is still pretty much a monologue.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:45PMWednesday, July 10, 2013
The trouble is, Doctor Cyber is just not a very good villain.
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A rich business consultant. A young hustler. An imaginary drag queen. Could this be love? Nah, it's just Chance.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:15PMFriday, July 5, 2013
Although based on Shaw's play, A Minister’s Wife is much less of a comedy and more of a drama than Candida is.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:47PMWednesday, July 3, 2013
Oh hey, it’s the Third of July! Maybe I should do this here comic with Uncle Sam on the cover, because that seems patriotic.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:30AMFriday, June 28, 2013
There's nothing like a devilish prankster to liven up your summer.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:10AMA '50s and '60s rock jukebox musical based on the B-movie Forbidden Planet, with half the dialogue lines from various Shakespeare plays roughly strung together?
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 12:50AMThursday, June 27, 2013
The Superman/Wonder Woman romance restores gender norms by getting her involved with someone more powerful than her
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:19AMNeil LaBute is known for unflinching depictions of human cruelty, so what happens when he takes on race in the American heartland? This Is How It Goes
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 12:32AMTuesday, June 25, 2013
I caught the San Francisco Opera's world premiere opera setting the record straight about Mary Magdalene as the foremost of all apostles, and boy is my butt tired.
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