763 stories by "Sam Hurwitt"
You've scoffed about the romantic comedy wish-fulfillment archetype, now see the play!
Yesterday I met up with fellow critics Karen D'Souza of the San Jose Mercury News, Robert Hurwitt of the San Francisco Chronicle, Rob Avila of the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Chad Jones o…
It's the first time kids have been in a Marin Theatre Company show in well over a decade, so what's the youth-friendly vehicle in question? It's Waiting for Godot!
Lillian Hellman's 1939 play The Little Foxes may be set in 1900, but the subject matter has something to say to the present day, being essentially about the rich screwing
This second volume of Gail Simone's Wonder Woman run goes on a delightful tangent when Diana teams up with three heroes of DC Comics' sword and sorcery line of the 1970s.
Kapow! It's my first review for KQED's Arts Blog! And it's a good one.
The new issue of Theatre Bay Area is out! And it features the full script of Josh Costello's stage adaptation of Cory Doctorow's novel Little Brother.
The Cutting Ball Theater's experimental play festival Risk Is This is coming up this weekend, and I talked to artistic director Rob Melrose about it for the Marin Independent Journal.
Gail Simone made me a Wonder Woman fan.
When I posted my Top Ten shows of the year earlier this week, one may or may not have noticed that there weren’t any North Bay shows on my list,
I'd say this is a weird one, but with early William Moulton Marston Wonder Woman comics, that's pretty much a given.
Boy, this was a hard year to reduce to a Top Ten. When I look over the list of the 117 shows I attended in 2012, eight strike me as
Everyone knows nothing says Christmas like concentration camps.
Sensation Comics #14 was an unusual Wonder Woman tale in that the entire story is told from the point of view of another character. And"there's no way to break this to you gently"that narrat…
A poor young soldier in a sleepy town, Woyzeck is freaking out. Not so much about being a poor young soldier, although he's certainly aware that he has trouble getting by, but about how the …
People tell you that things can always get worse. And sure, you agree in principle, but you don't really believe it, especially when things are as bad as they were with Wonder Woman in 2007.
So let's see: What kinds of things happen in this issue? Well, the air force fires a missile at Wonder Girl while she's standing on the nose of Air Force One, because there's no way that cou…
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO Another Way Home, Magic Theatre. By Sam Hurwitt There sure are a lot of plays about wealthy Manhattanites. I guess that makes sense, because New York is a large…
It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Marin Theatre Company. Hey, remember last week when I linked to my feature in the Marin Independent Journal about It’s a Wonderful Life: A Liv…
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Wilder Times, Aurora Theatre Company. By Sam Hurwitt I know he's a fellow Berkeley High alum and all, but I could never get into Thornton Wilder. I've seen polished …
WONDER WEDNESDAY On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman's history. Click here for previous installments, including Greg Rucka's run, the earliest 1940s comics, and the curr…
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Marin Theatre Company. I interviewed the cast, director and set designer of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at Marin Theatre…
For all that she's the world's most prominent superheroine and a feminist icon featured on the very first cover of Ms. Magazine, Wonder Woman's comic has almost never been written by women. …
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Toil and Trouble, Impact Theatre. By Sam Hurwitt What's a young San Francisco hipster to do with a fancy degree and no motivation to get a real job? Well, how about …
Wonder Woman #5, DC Comics, April 2007.
I don't have time for a long write-up this week, so it's convenient that the next issue after Allan Heinberg's short run on Wonder Woman (explored …
