Tuesday, 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.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:35PMWednesday, June 19, 2013
Diana and I Ching stop by some big car race in Europe. One of the racers is millionaire Bruce Wayne, who decides this would be an excellent opportunity to hit on her.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:09AMSunday, June 16, 2013
Dance Dance Revolution in the Chinese Land of the Dead? That's Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s 410[GONE] at Crowded Fire Theater.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:06PMSaturday, June 15, 2013
The weirdness just gets weirder once Krispy Kritters in the Scarlett Night actually starts.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:54PMWednesday, June 12, 2013
WONDER WEDNESDAY On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments. There have been a number of stories over the years that have to…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:27AMSunday, June 9, 2013
The Medea Hypothesis isn’t a retelling of Medea so much as a new riff on its themes.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:01PMFriday, June 7, 2013
California Shakespeare Theater's season opener, Richard Montoya's American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, is completely bonkers.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 09:35PMWednesday, June 5, 2013
Wonder Woman has fought gods and monsters, mole men and milk barons, but isn’t it high time she fought the real enemy? Yes, I’m talking about hippies.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:11AMMonday, June 3, 2013
Mark O'Rowe's Terminus at Magic Theatre is a spellbinding, dizzying play in which it doesn't matter a whit that it's made up of three people standing around telling their stories.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:10PMSunday, June 2, 2013
Playwright Sarah Ruhl and director Les Waters reunite to bring to life the lifelong correspondence between poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:16PMThursday, May 30, 2013
Mark Jackson directs Martin McDonagh's often hilarious, aching and brutal portrait of a needy and manipulative elderly mother and her resentful 40-year-old daughter/caretaker.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 12:20PMWednesday, May 29, 2013
When I think about what my first Wonder Woman comic was, it’s pretty easy to remember. Almost.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:14AMThursday, May 23, 2013
Any dog lover will recognize the canine behavior in Sylvia, the play about an adorable new dog and the couple whose marriage it threatens.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:14PMIf you can't climb ev'ry mountain, the Mountain Play's 100th anniversary makes it well worth climbing Mount Tam to see The Sound of Music.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:58PMWednesday, May 22, 2013
So how did things get to this point, where war between Aquaman and Wonder Woman is tearing the world apart?
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:07AMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Prince Gomolvilas and Brandon Patton are back at Impact Theatre with another hilarious round of Jukebox Stories.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:34PMSaturday, May 18, 2013
So five Helen of Troys walk into a bedroom...
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:56PMWednesday, May 15, 2013
DC has usually had more than one of these overlapping uber-crises going on at the same time. Even so, Flashpoint was one that I thought I could safely ignore.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:51AMWednesday, May 8, 2013
There was at least one small group of people who remembered Wonder Woman, but that was only because they were in the middle of a story about the world forgetting someone else.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:01AMMonday, May 6, 2013
A Killer Story has the trappings of a hardboiled detective yarn, but instead of snappy dialogue you have competing, overlapping monologues that are less about the case in question than the i…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:15PMThursday, May 2, 2013
Sam Shepard's True West comes home to Marin in an overstated but animated production by Marin Actors' Workshop.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:20AMWednesday, May 1, 2013
AlterTheater's latest world premiere, by 90-year-old Marin theater veteran Ann Brebner, proves a sweet depiction of a family helping each other through grief.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:49PMMan, I’m ready to be done with J. Michael Straczinski and Phil Hester’s “Odyssey.”
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:50AMTuesday, April 30, 2013
Only in New York... or maybe Walnut Creek: Center REP is doing Yussef El Guindi's cross-cultural romantic comedy Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:41PMWednesday, April 24, 2013
Enter a whole lot of colorful characters who knew the dead guy and come to praise him, and maybe even eventually to bury him.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:57PMHoly crap, are we already on chapter 7 of this “Odyssey”? It seems like not a whole lot has happened, which isn’t quite true. It’s just that not a whole lot of note has happened.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:35AMSunday, April 21, 2013
The cool thing about Stuck Elevator is that it’s a musical about a Chinese delivery guy getting stuck in the elevator of a Bronx apartment building for 81 hours. That’s also the problema…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:50PMSaturday, April 20, 2013
Acclaimed British director (and original Zaphod Beeblebrox) Mark Wing-Davey is back at Berkeley Rep with Shakespeare (& co.'s) troubled shaggy-dog drama Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:05PMFriday, April 19, 2013
A bourgeois family blithely, cheerily makes one jaw-droppingly bad decision after another in order to maintain itsexpensive lifestyle.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:39PMThursday, April 18, 2013
A story examining the future of the Fringe of Marin festival after the death of founder Annette Lust, and a chat with Ann Brebner about breaking new ground in playwriting at the age of 90.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:31PMWednesday, April 17, 2013
How far would you go along to get along? Find out when Mark Jackson directs a new translation of Max Frisch's 1958 play The Arsonists at Aurora Theatre Company.
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