763 stories by "Sam Hurwitt"
Oh hey, it's the Third of July! Maybe I should do this here comic with Uncle Sam on the cover, because that seems patriotic.
There's nothing like a devilish prankster to liven up your summer.
A '50s and '60s rock jukebox musical based on the B-movie Forbidden Planet, with half the dialogue lines from various Shakespeare plays roughly strung together?
The Superman/Wonder Woman romance restores gender norms by getting her involved with someone more powerful than her
Neil LaBute is known for unflinching depictions of human cruelty, so what happens when he takes on race in the American heartland? This Is How It Goes
I caught the San Francisco Opera's world premiere opera setting the record straight about Mary Magdalene as the foremost of all apostles, and boy is my butt tired.
Diana and I Ching stop by some big car race in Europe. One of the racers is millionaire Bruce Wayne, who decides this would be an excellent opportunity to hit on her.
Dance Dance Revolution in the Chinese Land of the Dead? That's Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's 410[GONE] at Crowded Fire Theater.
The weirdness just gets weirder once Krispy Kritters in the Scarlett Night actually starts.
WONDER WEDNESDAY On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman's history. Click here for previous installments. There have been a number of stories over the years that have …
The Medea Hypothesis isn't a retelling of Medea so much as a new riff on its themes.
California Shakespeare Theater's season opener, Richard Montoya's American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, is completely bonkers.
Wonder Woman has fought gods and monsters, mole men and milk barons, but isn't it high time she fought the real enemy? Yes, I'm talking about hippies.
Mark O'Rowe's Terminus at Magic Theatre is a spellbinding, dizzying play in which it doesn't matter a whit that it's made up of three people standing around telling their stories.
Playwright Sarah Ruhl and director Les Waters reunite to bring to life the lifelong correspondence between poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.
Mark Jackson directs Martin McDonagh's often hilarious, aching and brutal portrait of a needy and manipulative elderly mother and her resentful 40-year-old daughter/caretaker.
When I think about what my first Wonder Woman comic was, it's pretty easy to remember. Almost.
Any dog lover will recognize the canine behavior in Sylvia, the play about an adorable new dog and the couple whose marriage it threatens.
If you can't climb ev'ry mountain, the Mountain Play's 100th anniversary makes it well worth climbing Mount Tam to see The Sound of Music.
So how did things get to this point, where war between Aquaman and Wonder Woman is tearing the world apart?
Prince Gomolvilas and Brandon Patton are back at Impact Theatre with another hilarious round of Jukebox Stories.
So five Helen of Troys walk into a bedroom...
DC has usually had more than one of these overlapping uber-crises going on at the same time. Even so, Flashpoint was one that I thought I could safely ignore.
There was at least one small group of people who remembered Wonder Woman, but that was only because they were in the middle of a story about the world forgetting someone else.
A Killer Story has the trappings of a hardboiled detective yarn, but instead of snappy dialogue you have competing, overlapping monologues that are less about the case in question than the i…
