734 stories from The Idiolect
The westward migration, the video game, the stage play: The Oregon Trail
James Baldwin's first play, The Amen Corner, makes a surprisingly good case against religion.
TheatreFIRST revives a typically testosterone-fueled Mamet classic.
New musical Max Understood brings us into the world of an autistic boy.
From a fool and a pack of puppets, two offbeat takes on Lear.
I find the idea of a powerful woman having to date someone more physically powerful than she is really regressive.
Word for Word converts Alice Munro's short stories to plays without changing a word.
The kids are all right, all by themselves.
I love the idea of Wonder Woman having all these different variants of her costume for different purposes.
Impact Theatre's Richard III is unusually slow for either the company or the play.
Three messed-up daughters convene after their cruel mother's death in Enemies: Foreign and Domestic.
In post-apocalyptic Northern California, The Simpsons becomes the stuff of myth.
Danai Gurira's The Convert is a wrenching battle between traditional culture and colonial "civilization."
African-American Shakespeare Company and the Cutting Ball Theater each reinvent Antigone.
This isn't really first team-up of Earth-2's Wonder Woman & Earth-1's Superman, Batman, Black Canary & Green Arrow.
There's a little Catherine Trieschmann festival going on in the Bay Area right now.
Imagine spending time with a family full of absurdly inconsiderate people who can't stand each other and constantly push each other's buttons. And it's not even your family.
Earnest young actors get in over their heads grappling with colonialism in Just Theater's cutting play within a play.
The whole genre of war comics doesn't work well in a world where a superhero might swoop in to save the day.
Three Sisters is one of those classics that other playwrights just love adapting.
Lafayette's Town Hall Theatre takes flight with Angels in America.
Three Bay Area companies adapt the same Greek tragedy at the same time.
Every insane family is insane in its own way in Shepard revival at the Magic.
City Lights' Build is very much a Silicon Valley play.
Lamplighters takes on Bernstein's delightful and troubled operetta Candide.
