Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Girish Karnad Poses Love Choice Between Poetry & Power by Susan Dunn “Hayavadan,” Girish Karnad’s popular 1971 play, fulfills our romantic fantasies. A woman aspires to the perfect…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 12:16AMFriday, September 7, 2018
Sujit Saraf Spins Complex Epic in Drama, Music, Dance by Susan Dunn It’s like swallowing a whale. That’s what it has meant to the plucky and talented all-volunteer team producing an adap…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 08:21PMFriday, June 29, 2018
Winkler Throws Privileged Whites to the Birds by Susan Dunn Leah Nanako Winkler is on a mission. She’s tired of the old theater formulas: white folks sitting around the dinner table ai…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 01:41PMTuesday, June 26, 2018
Hwang/Tesori Challenge East/West Diplomacy by Susan Dunn The Opening Night audience went wild at The Curran! “Soft Power,” a new play within a musical, on its world premiere tour, wi…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 09:31AMWednesday, May 9, 2018
Matthew Spangler Reveals Strings behind Shah’s Puppet Regime by Susan Dunn Iran is headline news, and “All the Shah’s Men” dives into the 1950s history of how we got to where we ar…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:18PMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Jonathan Spector Delivers Comic Send-Up in Facebook Fiasco by Susan Dunn I had an “Oh No” feeling when I saw the private school parents’ board meeting assembled to resolve school iss…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 07:26PMWednesday, November 8, 2017
William J. Brown’s Decisive Hamlet Purges His Nation by Susan Dunn The Arabian Shakespeare Festival’s “Hamlet” comes with a modern political backstory of conquest and colonization.…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:29PMThursday, April 6, 2017
Yussef El Guindi Raises the Stakes on Selling Out by Susan Dunn Picture a movie that starts with a Thanksgiving dinner suddenly invaded by a blood-seeking terrorist who tortures Dad with t…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 11:53PMTuesday, February 28, 2017
Vikas Dhurka’s Airport Anxiety Flies Off the Charts by Susan Dunn In our high-powered, charged-up lives, where do we most need to feel safe and secure? The airport, of course. But “hurr…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:18AMSaturday, February 4, 2017
Samuel Beckett’s Most Animated Void by Susan Dunn Samuel Beckett accomplished the impossible when he wrote “Waiting for Godot” in 1949, the classic absurdist play about the vacuity of …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 12:10AMSunday, January 1, 2017
Flappers, Molls, and Wise Guys Sing and Slink by Susan Dunn “I know a dark secluded place. A place where no one knows your face, just strike a match…” “The Speakeasy” invites us …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 02:38PMMonday, November 14, 2016
Hip-Hop Darling Spawns “1776” Revivals by Susan Dunn “Hamilton: An American Musical,” with its 16 Tony nominations and 11 Tony Awards, has rolled out a revolution across the theater …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 06:56PMMonday, October 24, 2016
Mexico Emerges from the White Box by Susan Dunn Theater-goers know Black Box Theater: a simple, unadorned performance space, usually a large square room with black walls and a flat floor. �…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:11AMWednesday, October 12, 2016
The Scottish Play Makes News in the Mission by Susan Dunn What’s most important in a “Macbeth” production? The words. The immortal words! Do we need a full cast, period costumes,…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 02:48AMSunday, October 9, 2016
Theresa Rebeck Wins Michelin Stars for Fine Feast by Susan Dunn “Seared” puts everyone who likes food in their comfort zone, immediately. Cook pots hang from the ceiling; stew pots simme…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 06:27PMTuesday, September 20, 2016
Close Encounters of the Indian Kind at Cubberley Theater by Susan Dunn Beautiful voices burst forth suddenly, a brilliant clarion call. Exotic instruments twang out a beat. And brightly cost…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 08:25PMWednesday, September 7, 2016
Ambition, Love, and Terror Clash in Marin by Susan Dunn Marin Shakes’ Artistic Director Robert S. Currier introduced his opening night Othello with the proclamation that this production is…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:03AMTuesday, July 5, 2016
Susan Dunn finds a community, inspiration, revelation and joy in Bay Area live theater. Since her move from New York in 1991 she has been on the board or staff or both of Hillbarn Theatre, A…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:45AMSunday, February 24, 2013
Who Will Win? Who Should Win? And Why? The Academy Awards bring out the critic in everyone. It starts when the nominations are announced — "Whaddya mean, Ben Affleck wasn't nominated?…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AM 
