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THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO ReOrient 2012, Golden Thread Productions. By Sam Hurwitt It's been a while since Golden Thread's last ReOrient festival of short plays about the Middle E…
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 the curr…
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Acid Test: The Many Incarnations of Ram Dass, the Marsh Berkeley By Sam Hurwitt Acid Test: The Many Incarnations of Ram Dass is a relative rarity for the Marsh"a sol…
I'm taking a pause from my chronicling of Golden Age Wonder Woman stories for a little while, for a couple of reasons. You'd think all the zaniness of the 1940s William Moulton Marston stori…
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO The Hundred Flowers Project, Crowded Fire Theater and Playwrights Foundation. By Sam Hurwitt It doesn't matter how much I talk about The Hundred Flowers …
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO And That's What Little Girls Are Made Of, Diaspora Productions. By Sam Hurwitt Gender equality in the business world is a vitally important, touchy subject that…
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Richard the First, Central Works. By Sam Hurwitt William Shakespeare wrote plays about all the other Richards that served as kings of England, and even wrote trilogi…
The Ghost Sonata, Cutting Ball Theater. The Cutting Ball Theater is performing all five of August Strindberg‘s Chamber Plays in rep (the first time it’s been done in any language…
Running alongside the adventures of the Golden Age Green Lantern and Flash, Wildcat, the Ghost Patrol and the Black Pirate in this anthology comic, this story meant that Wonder Woman was now…
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY An Iliad, Berkeley Repertory Theatre. There have been many, many plays about Homer's Iliad and about the Trojan War in general. In the last few years alone, w…
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO Zombie Vixens from Hell"The Musical!, Virago Theatre Company. Love in the Time of Zombies, San Francisco Theater Pub. By Sam Hurwitt We always knew this day wou…
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO The Scotland Company, Thunderbird Theatre Company. By Sam Hurwitt Thunderbird Theatre Company specializes in ridiculous comedies, whether it's a Citizen …
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY & SAN FRANCISCO Assassins, Shotgun Players. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, San Francisco Playhouse. By Sam Hurwitt The presidential debates are upon us, Election …
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 the curr…
WONDER WEDNESDAY On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman's history. Click here for previous installments, including Greg Rucka's run and the current "New 52" era. We’r…
Topdog/Underdog, Marin Theatre Company.
Two brothers named Lincoln and Booth–well, this will end well. Marin Theatre Company does Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer Prize-winning pla…
WONDER WEDNESDAY
On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman's history. Click here for previous installments, including Greg Rucka's run and the current "New 52" era. We’r…
You may have noticed I haven’t been posting much for the last couple of weeks. Â I’m not abandoning the blog or anything; I’m just neglecting it a bit. That’s due t…
WONDER WEDNESDAY
On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman's history. Click here for previous installments, including Greg Rucka's run and the current "New 52" era. We’r…
The Vagina Monologues, Independent Cabaret Productions and Shakespeare at Stinson.
Another day, another production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues. The latest no-frills produc…
WONDER WEDNESDAY
On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman's history. Click here for previous installments, including Greg Rucka's run and the current "New 52" era.
By Sam Hur…
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Port Out, Starboard Home, foolsFURY Theater and Z Space.
By Sam Hurwitt
Let's get the title out of the way first. The word "posh" supposedly derives from an acr…
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Invasion!, Crowded Fire Theater.
By Sam Hurwitt
Invasion! is a puzzling play. Written by Tunisian-Swedish playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri and translated from th…
WONDER WEDNESDAY
On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman's history. Click here for previous installments, including Greg Rucka's run and the current "New 52" era.
By Sam Hur…
THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Placas: The Most Dangerous Tattoo, San Francisco International Arts Festival.
By Sam Hurwitt
Placas: The Most Dangerous Tattoo is a project that's been in the w…
