734 stories from The Idiolect
Enter a whole lot of colorful characters who knew the dead guy and come to praise him, and maybe even eventually to bury him.
Holy crap, are we already on chapter 7 of this "Odyssey"? It seems like not a whole lot has happened, which isn't quite true. It's just that not a whole lot of note has happened.
The cool thing about Stuck Elevator is that it's a musical about a Chinese delivery guy getting stuck in the elevator of a Bronx apartment building for 81 hours. That's also the problematic …
Acclaimed British director (and original Zaphod Beeblebrox) Mark Wing-Davey is back at Berkeley Rep with Shakespeare (& co.'s) troubled shaggy-dog drama Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
A bourgeois family blithely, cheerily makes one jaw-droppingly bad decision after another in order to maintain itsexpensive lifestyle.
A story examining the future of the Fringe of Marin festival after the death of founder Annette Lust, and a chat with Ann Brebner about breaking new ground in playwriting at the age of 90.
How far would you go along to get along? Find out when Mark Jackson directs a new translation of Max Frisch's 1958 play The Arsonists at Aurora Theatre Company.
J. Michael Straczynski has suddenly stuck Diana in some altered personal timeline in which Paradise Island was destroyed when she was just a little kid, and she's spent her life on the run w…
The Language Archive is easily summarized by one bit of breezy irony: A linguist can't find the words to save his marriage.
Being Earnest has transplanted Wilde's comedy to the swinging London of the 1960s for some reason, or for no reason at all.
There's nothing like driving to Bolinas to see a production of Love Letters to make you question your life choices.
WONDER WEDNESDAY On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman's history. Click here for previous installments. Wonder Woman: Odyssey vol. 1, DC Comics, 2011. So, all right,…
Walter Wells is happy.  Way, way too happy. So happy that you know that playwright Julie Marie Myatt has it in for him in The Happy Ones at Magic Theatre.Â
Shotgun Players is taking on The Coast of Utopia,Tom Stoppard’s mammoth trilogy about the budding Russian intellectual life of the mid-19th century, planting seeds for the revolution t…
Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man sees a wounded Confederate soldier and two of his former slaves scraping together a makeshift Passover seder just a day or two after the Civil War.
The surprise of Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty is that it's almost upbeat.
Breaking up is hard to do, and Jeffrey Lo's ​A Kind of Sad Love Story makes that achingly clear.
It seems like this always happens when Wonder Woman's in the middle of something serious"her mom calls her back to Paradise Island.
We continue our look at the Emma Peel era of Wonder Woman, when she suddenly gave up her powers and costume, started dressing in mod fashions, and learned karate from an old blind Chinese gu…
The premise of this romantic comedy is as simple as it is dubious: that love and dating are a lot like videogames.
You'd think it might be tough to be an African-American lesbian couple in the 1890s American South, but A Lady and a Woman at Theatre Rhinoceros doesn't give that impression.
There seems to be a rash of two-character plays that pair deceased notables with obvious fictional characters designed only to draw the celebrities out and get them talking about themselves.
The Cutting Ball Theater unveils a new translation of Eugène Ionesco's The Chairs that can be hard to sit through.
I've alluded in the past to the swinging '60s era when Wonder Woman lost her powers and became a karate-chopping adventurer in the mod mode of Emma Peel. But that summary doesn't even do it …
The New Settlers would like to show you their compound before a cosmic rift splits reality asunder and they cross over to build a New America on the other side.
