763 stories by "Sam Hurwitt"
There's a macabre feast of theatrical treats on local stages this Halloween season.
Lauren Gunderson's latest play explores the near-impossibility of love under state-sponsored repression.
Bobby, Bobby baby, Bobby bubbee, in comes Company at Town Hall Theatre.
Christopher Chen borrows from fabulist Italo Calvino to create a dizzying web of fantastical fragments about marriage.
Sensation Comics continues to be the best news Wonder Woman fans have had for some time.
Ever wonder what goes through the head of a cockfighting rooster? Wonder no more!
Gina Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn is a play about four women sitting around talking about feminism.
The title of this story is "A Duke Named Deception," and longtime readers will know exactly what that means.
"Post-post-modern diva" Meow Meow muddles through an evening of hilarity and despair through sheer force of personality at Berkeley Rep.
We Players reshuffles Shakespeare's Lear to create a new story about taking care of a delirious and infirm parent.
I checked out 10 and a half consecutive hours of the San Francisco Fringe Festival, and boy is my everything tired.
Kung says things like "this humble one" and "honorable Amazon," as is obligatory for Asian characters in 1970s comics.
PianoFight gets out of the Tenderloin for a weekend to frolic in the wilds of West Marin.
My September/October Editors' Picks are up on the Theatre Bay Area website!
Hey, it's my first review in the Contra Costa Times!
Marin Shakespeare Company gets Wilde and witty with An Ideal Husband.
A traditional, presentational Tempest for free in a Mill Valley park may be more suitable for kids than for adults.
The sheer volume of great theater going on around the Bay Area can be daunting. I've picked out a few likely standouts to get you started.
Wondy finally has a second series all of her own.
Muhammad Ali takes on Stepin Fetchit in Marin Theatre Company's Fetch Clay, Make Man.
In the wake of a child murder and a school massacre, a town's kids congregate to remember the events the adults want to forget.
Princess Diana didn't just put on glasses and invent the fantastically uncreative alias of Diana Prince.
Pleiades reimagines the mythological star-sisters as 1970s debutantes discovering feminism.
At 5 p.m. my editor asked me if I had anything to say about Robin Williams's death. Yeah, I said. I really do.
A Scotland Yard inspector has come to interrogate the surviving protagonists of Stoker's novel.
