Wednesday, 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.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:16PMJ. Michael Straczynski has suddenly stuck Diana in some altered personal timeline in which Paradise Island was destroyed when she was just a little kid, and she’s spent her life on the run…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:46AMTuesday, April 16, 2013
The Language Archive is easily summarized by one bit of breezy irony: A linguist can’t find the words to save his marriage.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:27PMMonday, April 15, 2013
Being Earnest has transplanted Wilde's comedy to the swinging London of the 1960s for some reason, or for no reason at all.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 09:11PMSaturday, April 13, 2013
There's nothing like driving to Bolinas to see a production of Love Letters to make you question your life choices.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:18PMWednesday, April 10, 2013
WONDER WEDNESDAY On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments. Wonder Woman: Odyssey vol. 1, DC Comics, 2011. So, all right, f…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:16AMTuesday, April 9, 2013
Walter Wells is happy. Way, way too happy. So happy that you know that playwright Julie Marie Myatt has it in for him in The Happy Ones at Magic Theatre.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:33AMSunday, April 7, 2013
Shotgun Players is taking on The Coast of Utopia,Tom Stoppard’s mammoth trilogy about the budding Russian intellectual life of the mid-19th century, planting seeds for the revolution t…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:02PMThursday, April 4, 2013
Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man sees a wounded Confederate soldier and two of his former slaves scraping together a makeshift Passover seder just a day or two after the Civil War.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:01PMTuesday, April 2, 2013
The surprise of Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty is that it’s almost upbeat.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:42PMBreaking up is hard to do, and Jeffrey Lo's A Kind of Sad Love Story makes that achingly clear.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:14AMWednesday, March 27, 2013
It seems like this always happens when Wonder Woman’s in the middle of something serious—her mom calls her back to Paradise Island.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:19AMWednesday, March 20, 2013
We continue our look at the Emma Peel era of Wonder Woman, when she suddenly gave up her powers and costume, started dressing in mod fashions, and learned karate from an old blind Chinese gu…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:52PMTuesday, March 19, 2013
The premise of this romantic comedy is as simple as it is dubious: that love and dating are a lot like videogames.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:55PMSaturday, March 16, 2013
You'd think it might be tough to be an African-American lesbian couple in the 1890s American South, but A Lady and a Woman at Theatre Rhinoceros doesn't give that impression.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:40PMFriday, March 15, 2013
There seems to be a rash of two-character plays that pair deceased notables with obvious fictional characters designed only to draw the celebrities out and get them talking about themselves.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:51PMThursday, March 14, 2013
The Cutting Ball Theater unveils a new translation of Eugène Ionesco's The Chairs that can be hard to sit through.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:35AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
I’ve alluded in the past to the swinging ’60s era when Wonder Woman lost her powers and became a karate-chopping adventurer in the mod mode of Emma Peel. But that summary doesn’t even …
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:05PMTuesday, March 12, 2013
The New Settlers would like to show you their compound before a cosmic rift splits reality asunder and they cross over to build a New America on the other side.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:15PMMonday, March 11, 2013
A former army sniper recently returned from Afghanistan finally finds a job...on a monstrously cynical right-wing political campaign.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:35AMTuesday, March 5, 2013
The latest Sandbox premiere very much keeps things in the SF Playhouse family.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:27PMMonday, March 4, 2013
The three interlinked stories in this issue are all about the redemption of Baroness Paula von Gunther, Wonder Woman’s erstwhile archenemy.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:47PMThursday, February 28, 2013
I went to check out Conservatory Theatre Ensemble, the drama program at Tam High, and holy gosh, what's going on there had my head spinning.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:09PMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Impact Theatre gets gender-bent with an As You Like It where Celia's a dude, them Dukes are double dutchesses, the melancholy Jaques is a female hipster, and the forest of Arden is a Norther…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:17PMHow better to celebrate 600 sorta-consecutive issues of Wonder Woman than yet another character reboot?
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:04AMWednesday, February 20, 2013
The Flying Karamazov Brothers' 40th anniversary show at San Jose Rep turns out to be a long lecture on the history of the group, punctuated by all-too-occasional bursts of juggling.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:20PMI don’t know how much advance warning Gail Simone had that it was time to wrap it up, but it reads like she was planting the scenes for a much longer story than what actually came to pass.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:53AMSaturday, February 16, 2013
The Disney princesses are sick and tired of all the demure, happily-ever-after crap they have to put up with, and they’re not going to take it anymore. Okay, sure they are.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:54PMFriday, February 15, 2013
The performers deliver the lines in a monotone, without nuance, varying in volume but without emotion of any kind.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:48PMWednesday, February 13, 2013
WONDER WEDNESDAY On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments, including Greg Rucka’s run, the earliest 1940s comics, and th…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:48PMTuesday, February 12, 2013
The Fourth Messenger is a fascinating and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the life of the Buddha as a 21st century woman, and the investigative reporter who's out to expose her.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:27PM 
