Wednesday, November 28, 2012
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 the …
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:03AMThursday, November 22, 2012
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Marin Theatre Company. I interviewed the cast, director and set designer of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at Marin Theatre C…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 12:29PMTuesday, November 20, 2012
For all that she’s the world’s most prominent superheroine and a feminist icon featured on the very first cover of Ms. Magazine, Wonder Woman’s comic has almost never been written by w…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:31AMFriday, November 16, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Toil and Trouble, Impact Theatre. By Sam Hurwitt What’s a young San Francisco hipster to do with a fancy degree and no motivation to get a real job? Well, how abou…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:34PMWednesday, November 14, 2012
Wonder Woman #5, DC Comics, April 2007.
I don’t have time for a long write-up this week, so it’s convenient that the next issue after Allan Heinberg’s short run on Wonder Woman (exp…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:26AMTHEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO Strindberg Cycle: The Chamber Plays in Rep, Cutting Ball Theater. By Sam Hurwitt The Cutting Ball Theater is marking the centennial of August Strindberg’s dea…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:57AMFriday, November 9, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO The Lion King, SHN. By Sam Hurwitt It’s interesting looking at The Lion King now, in the aftermath of the colossal creative implosion that was Spider-Man: Tur…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:49AMThursday, November 8, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: WALNUT CREEK Status Update, Center REPertory Company. By Sam Hurwitt Facebook is the rabbit hole of the internet. If you’ve ever had an account (and most readers probably d…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:38PMThe Fringe of Marin, Dominican University Community Players. The Fringe of Marin has been going on for 30 seasons up at San Rafael’s Dominican University, run by Annette Lust of the SF…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:20AMTHEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO ReOrient 2012, Golden Thread Productions. By Sam Hurwitt It’s been a while since Golden Thread’s last ReOrient festival of short plays about the Midd…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:37AMWednesday, November 7, 2012
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 the …
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:05AMFriday, November 2, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Acid Test: The Many Incarnations of Ram Dass, the Marsh Berkeley By Sam Hurwitt Acid Test: The Many Incarnations of Ram Dass is a relative rarity for the Marsh—a s…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:15PMWednesday, October 31, 2012
I’m taking a pause from my chronicling of Golden Age Wonder Woman stories for a little while, for a couple of reasons. You’d think all the zaniness of the 1940s William Moulton Marston s…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:31PMTuesday, October 30, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO The Hundred Flowers Project, Crowded Fire Theater and Playwrights Foundation. By Sam Hurwitt It doesn’t matter how much I talk about The Hundred Flower…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 09:09PMFriday, October 26, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO And That’s What Little Girls Are Made Of, Diaspora Productions. By Sam Hurwitt Gender equality in the business world is a vitally important, touchy subject th…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:39PMThursday, October 25, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Richard the First, Central Works. By Sam Hurwitt William Shakespeare wrote plays about all the other Richards that served as kings of England, and even wrote trilogi…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:43PMThe Ghost Sonata, Cutting Ball Theater. The Cutting Ball Theater is performing all five of August Strindberg‘s Chamber Plays in rep (the first time it’s been done in any language…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:07PMWednesday, October 24, 2012
Running alongside the adventures of the Golden Age Green Lantern and Flash, Wildcat, the Ghost Patrol and the Black Pirate in this anthology comic, this story meant that Wonder Woman was now…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:30AMTuesday, October 23, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY An Iliad, Berkeley Repertory Theatre. There have been many, many plays about Homer’s Iliad and about the Trojan War in general. In the last few years alone,…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:31PMMonday, October 22, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO Zombie Vixens from Hell—The Musical!, Virago Theatre Company. Love in the Time of Zombies, San Francisco Theater Pub. By Sam Hurwitt We always knew this day w…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:35AMFriday, October 19, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO The Scotland Company, Thunderbird Theatre Company. By Sam Hurwitt Thunderbird Theatre Company specializes in ridiculous comedies, whether it’s a Citize…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:37PMThursday, October 18, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY & SAN FRANCISCO Assassins, Shotgun Players. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, San Francisco Playhouse. By Sam Hurwitt The presidential debates are upon us, Election …
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:21PMWednesday, October 17, 2012
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 the …
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:55AMTuesday, October 9, 2012
WONDER WEDNESDAY On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments, including Greg Rucka’s run and the current “New 52” era. We…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:00AMThursday, October 4, 2012
Topdog/Underdog, Marin Theatre Company.
Two brothers named Lincoln and Booth–well, this will end well. Marin Theatre Company does Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play …
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:19AMWednesday, October 3, 2012
WONDER WEDNESDAY
On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments, including Greg Rucka’s run and the current “New 52” era. We…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:09AMFriday, September 28, 2012
You may have noticed I haven’t been posting much for the last couple of weeks. I’m not abandoning the blog or anything; I’m just neglecting it a bit. That’s due to …
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 09:40PMWednesday, September 26, 2012
WONDER WEDNESDAY
On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments, including Greg Rucka’s run and the current “New 52” era. We…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:43PMTuesday, September 25, 2012
The Vagina Monologues, Independent Cabaret Productions and Shakespeare at Stinson.
Another day, another production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues. The latest no-frills producti…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 12:53PMWednesday, September 19, 2012
WONDER WEDNESDAY
On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments, including Greg Rucka’s run and the current “New 52” era.
By…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:01AMMonday, September 17, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Port Out, Starboard Home, foolsFURY Theater and Z Space.
By Sam Hurwitt
Let’s get the title out of the way first. The word “posh” supposedly derives from …
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:01AM 
