Wednesday, July 18, 2012
WONDER WEDNESDAY
On Wednesdays I’ll be taking a look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. This is the second in a series of posts on Greg Rucka’s much-lauded stint writing Wo…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:37AMMonday, July 16, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: PALO ALTO
Upright Grand, TheatreWorks.
By Sam Hurwitt
A funny thing happened at TheatreWorks’ opening night of Upright Grand at Palo Alto’s Lucie Stern Theatre. Before th…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:23PMFriday, July 13, 2012
FF FRIDAY
This is the seventh in a series of reviews of writer Jonathan Hickman’s run on Fantastic Four and its spinoff, FF. The first six posts are here, here, here, here, here a…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:13AMThursday, July 12, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Les Misérables, SHN.
By Sam Hurwitt
I wasn’t planning to go to Les Misérables. Not that I have anything against the blockbuster 1985 musical of Victor Hugo�…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:34PMFor the Greater Good, or The Last Election, San Francisco Mime Troupe.
This year’s Mime Troupe show revels in melodrama, casting the greedy investment banker as the strapping hero and …
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:02AMWednesday, July 11, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: ORINDA
Spunk, California Shakespeare Theater.
By Sam Hurwitt
Spunk is a bit of a departure for California Shakespeare Theater. It was just a decade ago that then-new artistic…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:53PMWONDER WEDNESDAY
Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia, DC Comics, 2002.
By Sam Hurwitt
When I posted my review of the first six issues of Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang’s rebooted Wonder Woman ser…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:00AMMonday, July 9, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Truffaldino Says No, Shotgun Players.
By Sam Hurwitt
Truffaldino Says No isn’t really a commedia dell’arte play, nor an adaptation of one. It is, however, about …
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:28AMSaturday, July 7, 2012
STAR TREK SATURDAY
Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 #2, IDW Publishing.
As I enthused last month, I’m pretty darned excited about Star Trek: The Next Generation/D…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 09:57AMFriday, July 6, 2012
FF FRIDAY Marvel’s venerable Fantastic Four series halted with issue #588, to be replaced with a new series, FF, which now stands for Future Foundation rather than Fantastic Four. The new …
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:16AMWednesday, July 4, 2012
WONDER WEDNESDAY
Wonder Woman Volume 1: Blood, DC Comics.
By Sam Hurwitt
I’m not sure what it is about Wonder Woman that makes people want to “fix” her. She’s considered one of DC C…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:17PMSunday, July 1, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
The Scottsboro Boys, American Conservatory Theater.
By Sam Hurwitt
Now making its Bay Area debut at American Conservatory Theater, The Scottsboro Boys is a cur…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:36AMFriday, June 29, 2012
Volume four of Jonathan Hickman’s Fantastic Four is the one that killed the long-running title—at least temporarily, and in a totally planned way. This is the one in which a member of th…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:40AMThursday, June 28, 2012
WATCHMEN WEDNESDAY
Before Watchmen: Comedian #1, DC Comics.
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #1, DC Comics.
By Sam Hurwitt
I thought I was out. I really did. Last week I said I probably wouldn�…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:33AMTuesday, June 26, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Salomania, Aurora Theatre Company.
By Sam Hurwitt
San Francisco playwright/director Mark Jackson started a fruitful relationship with Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre Co…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 09:45AMMonday, June 25, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Emotional Creature, Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Eve Ensler's latest is an ensemble piece for six young women exploring the plight of teenage girls all over the world…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:25AMFriday, June 22, 2012
The third volume of Jonathan Hickman’s Fantastic Four (subtitled “The Future Foundation”) starts with Reed Richards, the super-stretching scientist occasionally known as Mr. Fantastic,…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:55AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
WATCHMEN WEDNESDAY
Before Watchmen: Minutemen, DC Comics.
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre, DC Comics.
By Sam Hurwitt
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s 12-issue series Watchmen was a self-contain…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 12:38PMTuesday, June 19, 2012
Batuesday: Batman Volume 1: The Court of Owls.
By Sam Hurwitt
Back in the fall, when DC Comics rebooted its entire line of superhero comics, I picked up the first few issues of all of its �…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:34AMSaturday, June 16, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, Tides Theatre.
By Sam Hurwitt
When you arrive at the humble Phoenix Theater, tucked away on the sixth floor of a building around the…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:41PMFriday, June 15, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Reunion, SF Playhouse.
By Sam Hurwitt
On the surface, Julie and Valerie seem to have nothing in common. As played by Lauren English in Kenn Rabin’s play Reuni…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:55PMFF Friday: Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman, Vol. 2.
By Sam Hurwiitt
My weekly look at the trade collections of writer Jonathan Hickman’s current run on Fantastic Four brings me to the s…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:00AMThursday, June 14, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
American Idiot, SHN.
By Sam Hurwitt
The Broadway musical based on the album of the same name by East Bay punk band Green Day, American Idiot has walked a lonely…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:39PMMonday, June 11, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: MOUNTAIN VIEW
Wheelhouse, TheatreWorks.
By Sam Hurwitt
Wheelhouse is a musical that may be of interest if you have a burning desire to learn about the history of the rock ban…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:20AMFriday, June 8, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Bruja, Magic Theatre.
By Sam Hurwitt
Playwright Luis Alfaro dazzled Magic Theatre audiences two years ago with Oedipus el Rey, his lyrical barrio gangster updat…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:08AMFF Friday: Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman, Vol. 1.
By Sam Hurwitt
We now continue a week-by-week examination of Jonathan Hickman’s Fantastic Four run with… the first trade paperb…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:00AMWednesday, June 6, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Emilie: La Marquis du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight, Symmetry Theatre Company.
By Sam Hurwitt
A recent transplant to San Francisco from Georgia by way of New Yo…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 09:26PMSunday, June 3, 2012
Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 #1, IDW Publishing.
By Sam Hurwitt
As I said in my recent write-up of Jonathan Hickman’s Fantastic Four, I can’t afford to buy si…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:49AMFriday, June 1, 2012
FF Friday: Dark Reign: Fantastic Four
Every Friday for the next couple of months I’ll be reviewing a collection of Jonathan Hickman’s assorted Fantastic Four series. Hickman’s three-…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:46PMTHEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men, Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
By Sam Hurwitt
Let’s get this out of the way first. Dael Orlandersmith’s solo show at Berkeley Repertor…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:10PMThursday, May 31, 2012
I have not one but two reviews in today's Marin Independent Journal: Cinnabar Theater's rollicking revival of Born Yesterday, featuring a hilarious Heather Gordon as Billie Dawn, and Marin T…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:37AM 
