734 stories from The Idiolect
TheatreFIRST reemerges from a hiatus to produce Sarah Ruhl's luminous take on Virginia Woolf's Orlando.Â
This is also the last issue by Mike Sekowsky, who's been our guide for the rest of this mad mod meandering journey.
What's in Sean Owens's Breeches? Witty short plays and droll little songs, plus a whole lot of innuendo.
Rarely have I seen people get so giddy about going to see a play as with No Man's Land at Berkeley Rep, with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.
Mike Sekowsky isn't much for mystery; who dunnit is always pretty obvious from the start. And lo and behold, now he decides to do a spooky mystery story!
Let's get this out of the way first: There is no fantasy club in The Fantasy Club.
The women in the dialogues are all members of the same circle of friends from college in Tucson, now living in San Francisco or New York.
Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, Texas-style? Sure, why not?
Wonder Woman and Batman reenact The Prisoner of Zenda in two separate stories.
From time to time a play is just going to rub you the wrong way.
The Bay Area is blessed with more than its share of terrific solo theater artists, and new ones are coming out of the woodwork all the time.
Being familiar with the source material might help you appreciate the finer points of 50 Shades! The Musical, but the show's funny enough in its own right that you can pretty easily get the…
At last we get to find out just what the heck Tony's deal is.
Just Theater is back with not one but two plays in rep, and the first one, A Maze, is pretty freaking remarkable.
Marin Shakespeare Company digs up the first English revenge tragedy, and it's awesome.
The San Francisco Mime Troupe's new show is necessarily done on the cheap, and from the looks of it it's a rush job all around
One thing I appreciate about Mike Sekowsky's karate-chopping mod run of Wonder Woman is from time to time it would abandon all that and go do some sword-and-sorcery fantasy adventure.
Monologist Josh Kornbluth brings along another actor and a live band, but Sea of Reeds is still pretty much a monologue.
The trouble is, Doctor Cyber is just not a very good villain.
A rich business consultant. A young hustler. An imaginary drag queen. Could this be love? Nah, it's just Chance.
Although based on Shaw's play, A Minister's Wife is much less of a comedy and more of a drama than Candida is.
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
