Thursday, 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 10:37AMMonday, May 28, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
The Great Divide, Shotgun Players.
By Sam Hurwitt
Shotgun Players has doubled down on its commitment to new plays lately. Last year’s 20th-anniversary season was e…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:23PMThursday, May 24, 2012
The Music Man, Mountain Play.
Whaddaya talk, whaddaya talk… I’m just talkin’ ’bout The Music Man, way up yonder at the Mountain Play, in today’s Marin Independe…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:35AMWednesday, May 23, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
A Behanding in Spokane, SF Playhouse.
By Sam Hurwitt
Bay Area audiences have become familiar with the devilish and often bloody-minded wit of Martin McDonagh ov…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:07PMSaturday, May 19, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Tenderloin, Cutting Ball Theater.
By Sam Hurwitt
As company-in-residence at Exit on Taylor, the avant-garde Cutting Ball Theater strikes an odd contrast with th…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:52PMFriday, May 18, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Endgame and Play, American Conservatory Theater.
By Sam Hurwitt
The announcement late last year that American Conservatory Theater would be staging Samuel Becke…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:50PMThursday, May 17, 2012
The Odyssey, We Players.
Hey, I have a new review in today’s Marin Independent Journal! It’s We Players’ day-long adaptation of The Odyssey on Angel Island. So click on the…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:54PMWednesday, May 9, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Blues for an Alabama Sky, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre.
By Sam Hurwitt
The first season that longtime American Conservatory Theater actor Steven Anthony Jones has…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:53PMTuesday, May 8, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Anatol, Aurora Theatre Company.
By Sam Hurwitt
Chicks dig Anatol, and Anatol digs chicks. Exactly why the ladies are drawn to the title character of Arthur Schnitzle…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:49PMMonday, May 7, 2012
Crevice, Impact Theatre.
By Sam Hurwitt
Who hasn’t wondered what his or her life would be like if, well, everything were different? It’s the sort of reflection that nobody really indulge…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:34PMThursday, May 3, 2012
References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, AlterTheater.
I’ve had to take a break from the blog the last couple of weeks for a wide assortment of reasons, but I do have a review in to…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:40PMMonday, April 9, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN JOSE & SAN FRANCISCO
God of Carnage, San Jose Repertory Theatre.
Maple and Vine, American Conservatory Theater.
The Aliens, SF Playhouse.
By Sam Hurwitt
French playwr…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:46AMSaturday, April 7, 2012
Othello, the Moor of Venice, Marin Theatre Company.
Marin Theatre Company does its first Shakespeare play in years, and I reviewed it in Thursday’s Marin Independent Journal. So click …
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:28AMTuesday, March 27, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Octopus’s Garden, PianoFight.
By Sam Hurwitt
Scott Herman’s play Octopus’s Garden doesn’t actually have anything to do with octopi, nor gardens, nor ev…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:11PMMonday, March 26, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Red, Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
By Sam Hurwitt
British-born director Les Waters has been a consistently outstanding artistic presence at Berkeley Repertory Theatre …
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 12:09AMFriday, March 23, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
High, SHN.
By Sam Hurwitt
The last time SHN brought screen icon Kathleen Turner to the Bay Area, in 2007, she was costarring with Bill Irwin in a superb produc…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:15PMBecoming Grace, The Jewish Theatre San Francisco
TJT has unveiled the final show of its final season in a limited two-weekend run, founder Naomi Newman’s one-woman show about author Gr…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:48AMThursday, March 22, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
The Right Thing, 3 Girls Theatre.
By Sam Hurwitt
San Francisco’s fledgling 3Girls Theatre Company is jumping into the Bay Area theater community with both fee…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:48PMSaturday, March 17, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Merchants, No Nude Men.
By Sam Hurwitt
Cyndi Lauper sang that “money changes everything,” but Susan Sobeloff’s debut play Merchants seems to indicate that…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:25PMMonday, March 5, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Maurice, New Conservatory Theatre Center.
By Sam Hurwitt
E.M. Forster’s gay romance Maurice isn’t nearly as well known as his other novels such as A Passag…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:09PMSunday, March 4, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Titus Andronicus, Impact Theatre.
By Sam Hurwitt
Titus Andronicus is William Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy, and for centuries it was also generally considered to…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:21PMThursday, March 1, 2012
Cabaret, Independent Cabaret Productions and Shakespeare at Stinson.
This production hits Larkspur this weekend after a run at Fort Mason, and my review is there to welcome it in today̵…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:57AMWednesday, February 29, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
The Waiting Period, The Marsh.
By Sam Hurwitt
Brian Copeland has a lot going on. His last one-man show at the Marsh, Not a Genuine Black Man, ran off and on for…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:12PMTuesday, February 28, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Tontlawald, Cutting Ball Theater.
By Sam Hurwitt
Cutting Ball cut its teeth (or, I suppose, its ball) on experimental theater, so the only real surprise about t…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:12PMThursday, February 23, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Scorched, American Conservatory Theater.
By Sam Hurwitt
The primary selling point of Scorched is Oscar-nominated actor David Strathairn’s return to his native…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:25PMWednesday, February 22, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Tree City Legends, Intersection for the Arts.
By Sam Hurwitt
When Intersection gave up its Valencia Street home a year ago to move into the Chronicle building d…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:07PMMonday, February 20, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Mesmeric Revelation…, Central Works.
By Sam Hurwitt
Mesmeric Revelation…Before Edgar Allen Poe has nothing to do with Edgar Allen Poe. The second play t…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:26PMSaturday, February 18, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Blue/Orange, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre.
By Sam Hurwitt
Whatever anyone expected from the first season longtime ACT actor Steven Anthony Jones programmed as art…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:45PMFriday, February 17, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
A Doctor in Spite of Himself, Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
By Sam Hurwitt
In reviewing theater, all too often I have to call out a production for playing the comedy t…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:05PMWednesday, February 15, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Higher, American Conservatory Theater.
By Sam Hurwitt
American Conservatory Theater doesn’t do new plays all the time, but it likes to throw the occasional wo…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:20PMSaturday, February 11, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: WALNUT CREEK
Arms and the Man, Center REPertory Company.
By Sam Hurwitt
It’s clear as soon as you enter the theater at Walnut Creek’s Lesher Center for the Arts that Cent…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 09:18PM 
