734 stories from The Idiolect
Our dog is freaking adorable, and my wife is a genius.
When I saw John Patrick Shanley's latest play at San Francisco Playhouse, my take-away was that this guy isn't really a playwright.
Yeah yeah, this year was the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. But what's much more important is that December 21 is the 50th anniversary of the Daleks, the Doctor's first and greatest enemies.
Edward Gant brings his traveling Victorian freak show of heartbreak to Shotgun's Ashby Stage
In the mid-1970s, Robert Kanigher continues to recycle stories he wrote way back in the 1940s.
Well, this weekend I saw the last play I'm seeing this year (the 138th!), so I'm ready to unveil my top ten shows of 2013.
Alicia Dattner's solo show is a recovery narrative on the rebound from sleeping around too much.
Suddenly Wonder Woman was the most old-fashioned comic that DC was putting out in the early 1970s.
Long-touring British two-man show capitalizing on the popularity of the Harry Potter books comes to town and... eh, it's okay.
The mystery of Nubia is at last revealed.
Marin Theatre Company's holiday show riffs on Dickens through the dead eyes of Scrooge's partner.
Holy ho-ho-the-holly, there are a lot of holiday shows going on right now.
Magic Theatre doesn't do musicals often, but by golly it's doing one now.
Well, this is it"finally the end of the mod era of Wonder Woman of the late 1960s and early '70s.
Aaron Loeb's latest play in San Francisco Playhouse's Sandbox Series of second-stage world premieres, Ideation is a suspenseful and hilarious business-world thriller.
Cutting Ball's Sidewinders and Symmetry Theatre's Carnival Round the Central Figure can be boiled down to very simple thesis statements.
Nothing's really ending, because hardly anything has actually happened in this book.
Peter and the Starcatcher is a prequel to Peter Pan, detailing how the Lost Boys and the pirates got to Neverland in the first place.
Impact Theatre goes way back to the Trojan War in its latest high-octane staging of Shakespeare.
Local playwright Eve Edelson gives us a look at Nigerian scammers and the online pranksters who revel in wasting their time.
Marin Onstage takes on Ibsen's A Doll House, but only Nora really rises to the occasion, and Torvald is downright creepy.
On November 22 I'm going to make my playwriting debut.
What's up with all this creeping patriarchy, Azzarello?
Scottish playwright Linda McLean returns with an eerie, elliptical portrait of a life in five scenes.
There's a difference between covering a life and capturing it.
