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Quite Becoming
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Show #126: Becoming Julia Morgan, The Julia Morgan Project, December 19. Dave Garrett, Sally Clawson and Janis Stevens in Becoming Julia Morgan. Photo by Benjamin Privitt. By...
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Ten for Twenty-Ten
Here we are pretty much back where we started on this blog, with my Top Ten list of my favorite shows for the year. It was awfully hard to whittle the 126 shows I saw this year in the Bay Area down to...
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Things Fall Apart
Some days it’s all you can do just to hold it together, and sometimes every day is like that. That’s the feeling one gets from Minneapolis playwright Allison Moore’s latest comedy, Collapse, which...
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Lock Up Your Teenagers
When I heard that Impact Theatre artistic director Melissa Hillman was going to be helming Romeo and Juliet this year, the tag lines started to write themselves in my mind (“never was a story of more...
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Curiouser and Curiouser
There’s something mighty strange going on at the Berkeley City Club. The latest play by Central Works has a very different feel from other collaboratively created pieces the company has done in the...
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We Two Are One
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Show #17: I Dream of Chang and Eng, UC Berkeley Department of Theater Dance & Performance Studies, March 4. Andy Chan, Josemari Saenz and Gwen Kingston in I Dream of Chang...
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Ruination and Redemption
Suddenly there’s a small Lynn Nottage festival going on in the Bay Area, with two of the acclaimed contemporary playwright’s works running simultaneously on two sides of the bay: Ruined at Berkeley...
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No One Expects the Russian Revolution
Shotgun Players’ 2008 premiere of Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage was such a resounding success—winning the Glickman Award for best play to premiere in the Bay Area that year—that it’s no wonder...
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Talk About the Passion
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Show #38: Passion Play, Actors Ensemble of Berkeley, April 22. Justin Liszanckie and Meryn MacDougall in Passion Play. Photo by Anna Kaminska. By Sam Hurwitt Berkeley has been...
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Stages of Grief
It’s hard enough dealing with grief when you understand what happened, and why and how it happened, but when what’s happening to someone you love is completely incomprehensible, it’s mighty hard to get...
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Can’t Tease Everybody
I rarely miss a show at Berkeley’s Impact Theatre, because I’ve always liked the company’s fast and loose energy and its knack for finding outrageously funny new comedies. And from the name alone, The...
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