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A former army sniper recently returned from Afghanistan finally finds a job...on a monstrously cynical right-wing political campaign.
The latest Sandbox premiere very much keeps things in the SF Playhouse family.
The three interlinked stories in this issue are all about the redemption of Baroness Paula von Gunther, Wonder Woman's erstwhile archenemy.
I went to check out Conservatory Theatre Ensemble, the drama program at Tam High, and holy gosh, what's going on there had my head spinning.
Impact Theatre gets gender-bent with an As You Like It where Celia's a dude, them Dukes are double dutchesses, the melancholy Jaques is a female hipster, and the forest of Arden is a Norther…
How better to celebrate 600 sorta-consecutive issues of Wonder Woman than yet another character reboot?
The Flying Karamazov Brothers' 40th anniversary show at San Jose Rep turns out to be a long lecture on the history of the group, punctuated by all-too-occasional bursts of juggling.
I don't know how much advance warning Gail Simone had that it was time to wrap it up, but it reads like she was planting the scenes for a much longer story than what actually came to pass.
The Disney princesses are sick and tired of all the demure, happily-ever-after crap they have to put up with, and they're not going to take it anymore. Okay, sure they are.
The performers deliver the lines in a monotone, without nuance, varying in volume but without emotion of any kind.
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 th…
The Fourth Messenger is a fascinating and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the life of the Buddha as a 21st century woman, and the investigative reporter who's out to expose her.
It seems like I'm seeing a lot of self-produced musicals lately. I saw two just this weekend, in fact, Tanya Shaffer's The Fourth Messenger at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley
African-American Shakespeare Company proves that an all-black version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof works remarkably well
The San Francisco Playhouse gives Stephen Adly Guigis's The Motherfucker with the Hat its West Coast premiere, and it's a motherfucker of a show.
Introducing Genocide, an inarticulate, unstoppable murder machine that was supposed to be for Wonder Woman what Doomsday was for Superman.
Hey, who am I? Who are you? What are we doing here? What's this needle doing in my arm? And shouldn't there be a baby in that crib, instead of just a chicken leg? Octavio Solis explores life…
Our Practical Heaven is a sentimental journey oddly devoid of emotion.
I went to see Godot at Marin Theatre Company, and the headliner didn't even bother to show!
I hit the first couple nights of SF Sketchfest, and hooboy am I exhausted
To me it's not really a question of "what have they done to Wonder Woman??" because I've come to terms with the fact that this ain't her.
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
