Tuesday, 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 05:27PMMonday, February 11, 2013
It seems like I’m seeing a lot of self-produced musicals lately. I saw two just this weekend, in fact, Tanya Shaffer’s The Fourth Messenger at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:17AMFriday, February 8, 2013
African-American Shakespeare Company proves that an all-black version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof works remarkably well
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:58PMWednesday, February 6, 2013
The San Francisco Playhouse gives Stephen Adly Guigis's The Motherfucker with the Hat its West Coast premiere, and it's a motherfucker of a show.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:42PMIntroducing Genocide, an inarticulate, unstoppable murder machine that was supposed to be for Wonder Woman what Doomsday was for Superman.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:36AMSunday, February 3, 2013
Hey, who am I? Who are you? What are we doing here? What's this needle doing in my arm? And shouldn't there be a baby in that crib, instead of just a chicken leg? Octavio Solis explores life…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:11PMSaturday, February 2, 2013
Our Practical Heaven is a sentimental journey oddly devoid of emotion.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:45PMThursday, January 31, 2013
I went to see Godot at Marin Theatre Company, and the headliner didn't even bother to show!
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:55PMTuesday, January 29, 2013
I hit the first couple nights of SF Sketchfest, and hooboy am I exhausted
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:58PMWednesday, January 23, 2013
To me it’s not really a question of “what have they done to Wonder Woman??” because I’ve come to terms with the fact that this ain’t her.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:44AMTuesday, January 22, 2013
You've scoffed about the romantic comedy wish-fulfillment archetype, now see the play!
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 09:05PMYesterday I met up with fellow critics Karen D'Souza of the San Jose Mercury News, Robert Hurwitt of the San Francisco Chronicle, Rob Avila of the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Chad Jones o…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:50PMIt's the first time kids have been in a Marin Theatre Company show in well over a decade, so what's the youth-friendly vehicle in question? It's Waiting for Godot!
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:21AMMonday, January 21, 2013
Lillian Hellman’s 1939 play The Little Foxes may be set in 1900, but the subject matter has something to say to the present day, being essentially about the rich screwing
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:34AMWednesday, January 16, 2013
This second volume of Gail Simone’s Wonder Woman run goes on a delightful tangent when Diana teams up with three heroes of DC Comics’ sword and sorcery line of the 1970s.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 09:10AMFriday, January 11, 2013
Kapow! It's my first review for KQED's Arts Blog! And it's a good one.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:54AMThursday, January 10, 2013
The new issue of Theatre Bay Area is out! And it features the full script of Josh Costello's stage adaptation of Cory Doctorow's novel Little Brother.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:52PMThe Cutting Ball Theater's experimental play festival Risk Is This is coming up this weekend, and I talked to artistic director Rob Melrose about it for the Marin Independent Journal.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:20PMWednesday, January 9, 2013
Gail Simone made me a Wonder Woman fan.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:04AMThursday, January 3, 2013
When I posted my Top Ten shows of the year earlier this week, one may or may not have noticed that there weren’t any North Bay shows on my list,
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:43PMWednesday, January 2, 2013
I’d say this is a weird one, but with early William Moulton Marston Wonder Woman comics, that’s pretty much a given.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:57AMMonday, December 31, 2012
Boy, this was a hard year to reduce to a Top Ten. When I look over the list of the 117 shows I attended in 2012, eight strike me as
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:34AMTuesday, December 25, 2012
Everyone knows nothing says Christmas like concentration camps.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:01PMWednesday, December 19, 2012
Sensation Comics #14 was an unusual Wonder Woman tale in that the entire story is told from the point of view of another character. And—there’s no way to break this to you gently—that …
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 12:32AMThursday, December 13, 2012
A poor young soldier in a sleepy town, Woyzeck is freaking out. Not so much about being a poor young soldier, although he’s certainly aware that he has trouble getting by, but about how th…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:32AMWednesday, December 12, 2012
People tell you that things can always get worse. And sure, you agree in principle, but you don’t really believe it, especially when things are as bad as they were with Wonder Woman in 200…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:16AMWednesday, December 5, 2012
So let’s see: What kinds of things happen in this issue? Well, the air force fires a missile at Wonder Girl while she’s standing on the nose of Air Force One, because there’s no way th…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:06AMFriday, November 30, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO Another Way Home, Magic Theatre. By Sam Hurwitt There sure are a lot of plays about wealthy Manhattanites. I guess that makes sense, because New York is a large…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:30PMThursday, November 29, 2012
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Marin Theatre Company. Hey, remember last week when I linked to my feature in the Marin Independent Journal about It’s a Wonderful Life: A L…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:12AMWednesday, November 28, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Wilder Times, Aurora Theatre Company. By Sam Hurwitt I know he’s a fellow Berkeley High alum and all, but I could never get into Thornton Wilder. I’ve seen polis…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:58PMWONDER 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 the …
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