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2002 Stories by Michael Scott Moore

• We're Going Down the Pub

  published July 31, 2002

  Through Aug. 3 upstairs at the Edinburgh Castle Pub, 950 Geary (between Larkin and Polk), S.F. Tickets are $10; call 885-4074 or visit... More >>

• Give Till It Hurts

  published July 24, 2002

  Michael Frayn's Benefactors is nothing like the playwright's two most famous works, which are nothing like each other. Noises Off!... More >>

• Roberto Zucco

  published July 24, 2002

  Cutting Ball's production of Roberto Zucco, by the French playwright Bernard-Marie Koltès, has a keen sense of atmosphere: a foggy... More >>

• Sound and Fury

  published July 17, 2002

  Ever since Jonathan Moscone took over the California Shakespeare Festival two years ago, it's been a dunning refrain in this column that Cal... More >>

• The Ghost of Molly Malone

  published July 17, 2002

  During intermission on the first night of this new play a few audience members on the sidewalk broke out in a not-so-tuneful version of the old... More >>

• Speak To Me

  published July 10, 2002

  Russell Simmons, who founded Def Jam Records, is one of the godfathers of hip hop. He's made a career of stretching rap's audience beyond the... More >>

• Mister Smith Goes to Obscuristan

  published July 10, 2002

  Mr. Smith Goes to Obscuristan consists of the same lefty agit prop satire the Mime Troupe has offered for years, sugared with a few good... More >>

• American Buffalo

  published July 10, 2002

  The heartbreaking thing about David Mamet's career is that he hasn't written anything as human and tight as the early plays that made him famous:... More >>

• Songs to Die By

  published July 3, 2002

  You may have heard that Sean San José's new solo show, I Feel Love, is about his parents, who died of AIDS. That's not true. The... More >>

• Bodies and Hearts in the Face of the Monster

  published July 3, 2002

  Toni Press-Coffman's play about sex and the media reverses the Monica Lewinsky formula: Instead of a powerful older man shtupping a... More >>

• Bleak House

  published June 26, 2002

  Most summaries of Sam Shepard's Buried Child use the term "dysfunctional," as if Dodge and Tilden and Halie made up a realistically... More >>

• Abingdon Square

  published June 26, 2002

  Maria Irene Fornes' drama about a young woman in early 20th-century New York plays like a bad Edith Wharton remake. Marion, an orphaned girl,... More >>

• Been There, Staged That

  published June 19, 2002

  Caryl Churchill and Tony Kushner are friends, which is why finding one play by each of them in full production at the Berkeley Rep seems so cozy.... More >>

• Top Girls

  published June 19, 2002

  Caryl Churchill seems to be the soup of the day: Crowded Fire is offering a cup-size production of Top Girls to go with the Berkeley Rep's... More >>

• Lines of the Times

  published June 12, 2002

  The Apple Cart is not what you'd think -- a play about fruit vendors -- but a witty, long-winded argument about democracy by George Bernard... More >>

• The Ritz

  published June 12, 2002

  Terrence McNally's farce about dull Mafioso types infiltrating a gay bathhouse in 1977 is the sort of trashy but hilarious mutant you'd expect... More >>

• Bringing the War Home

  published June 5, 2002

  Quick: Name an ambitious three-hour play being staged now in Berkeley that opens in a dowdy English living room, but also deals with war in a... More >>

• How to Be a Secret Agent Girl as Seen on Television and in Movies

  published June 5, 2002

  How to Be a Secret Agent Girl is a good title for only two skits in this collection of performance art and comedy pieces by Cathleen Daly.... More >>

• R&R

  published May 29, 2002

  Five or six years ago, Art Street Theatre put on a deconstructed version of Romeo and Juliet at the San Francisco Fringe Festival and... More >>

• Fool for Love

  published May 29, 2002

  This sly revival of Sam Shepard's one-act about melancholy American drifters has something in common with Shakespeare's R&J (see review... More >>

• O Canada

  published May 22, 2002

  I think Derek Walcott holds the title for Greatest North American Playwright Almost Never Produced in San Francisco, but Michel Tremblay runs a... More >>

• Cockroach Infestation

  published May 22, 2002

  The late-'90s tech boom is far enough behind us, it seems, to start writing plays about it. Berkeley playwright Steve Lyons has concocted a new... More >>

• Laughaholic

  published May 15, 2002

  Everybody likes John Leguizamo. I like John Leguizamo. He's an energetic Nuyorican who grew up poor in Queens with his abandoned mom. Now... More >>

• Medea, the Opera

  published May 8, 2002

  The Shotgun Players' new production of Medea takes place in the huge, decaying UC Theatre, on a round stage built in front of the spot... More >>

• The Colour of Justice

  published May 8, 2002

  This topical play from England is just an edit of transcripts from a trial over the 1993 death of a young black man, Stephen Lawrence, at the... More >>