734 stories from The Idiolect
I saw not one but two brand new Lauren Gunderson plays in the last week and a half. First came The Taming, which I heartily enjoyed. And then came I and You.
The Taming is easily the best thing I've seen from playwright Lauren Gunderson since Exit, Pursued by a Bear.
A new political drama at TheatreWorks already seems sorely outdated.
A play about Johannes Kepler in a planetarium dome? It's a wonder it hasn't happened sooner.
42nd Street Moon digs up a long-forgotten Superman musical that pretty much demonstrates why it's long forgotten.
The whole thing seems to be about making things pretty, because, you know, it's a romance.
The same night Dolores Claiborne the opera closes, Carrie the Musical opens. Coincidence or Stephen King conspiracy?
When I first started writing up the white-suit mod era of Wonder Woman, this is the story I was most looking forward to.
A Stephen King opera? Who thought that was a good idea?
Magic Theatre brings back one of its most famous premieres, 35 years later.
Now that writer-artist Mike Sekowsky was off the title, the mod era of Wonder Woman was winding down.
Everything about this Catholic reformatory in New York City circa 1914 suggests that this is a very bad place where nothing good could possibly happen.
The greatest of giant Japanese monsters on one of SF's tiniest stages.
Bank-robbing couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow have been objects of popular fascination.
A site-specific Macbeth in a Civil War-era fort right under the Golden Gate Bridge succeeds more with the spectacle than the sense.
I took in a day and a half of the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The things I do for you people.
This is a weird one. And not just because it hinges on a talking lion.
This is so strange to say that I can hardly believe it as I type it, but Wonder Woman has never headlined an intercompany crossover comic.
David Lindsey-Abaire tackles the class divide in Good People at Marin Theatre Company, and if you get past the slow first act you're in for a treat in the second.
The good news: It's a Shakespearean romantic comedy that we're not all already sick of. The bad news: It's only so-so.
Earlier this year I reviewed Nicholas Weinbach's quirky indie musical Made in China. Now it's time for his twin brother Max Weinbach's quirky indie musical, A Match Made in Hell!
Priscilla Queen of the Desert"The Musical combines the two main trends of Broadway musicals: It's based on a cult movie, and it's a popsical.
A stunning local cast makes a sparkling Oscar Wilde classic a must-see at Cal Shakes.
Mill Valley's Curtain Theatre puts its usual free Shakespeare in the park aside for a year to do free commedia in the park.
Wonder Woman #196 contained a never-before-published Golden Age Wonder Woman story that was also never reprinted thereafter.
