Subject: Theater

• Magic Theatre Loses Artistic Director

  October 4, 2007

• Aisle Seat

  April 5, 1995

• Carey Nation

  July 26, 1995

• Aisle Seat

  February 21, 1996

• The Nature of the Beast

  March 20, 1996

• Ptidying Up

  May 29, 1996

• Breast cancer sucks, and so does Tough Titty

  February 11, 2009

• Killing My Neighbor

  December 24, 2008

• Taking It Personally

  New drama takes the politics of a playwright to another level.

  October 29, 2008

• Yellowjackets stings Berkeley High's rep

  September 17, 2008

• SF Weekly theater critic inspires play

  September 17, 2008

• What You Will

  July 23, 2008

• Tartuffe

  July 23, 2008

• Tangy Chicken and Wilted Puns

  Teatro ZinZanni's Hail Caesar! is a slight improvement on the dinner theater theme.

  June 11, 2008

• Half Full

  March 19, 2008

• Edna O’Brien’s Tir na nÓg Loses Its Magic

  March 12, 2008

• Inside Albert's Head and Lost & Found

  February 13, 2008

• The Not-So-Hot Seat

  A work of substance may lurk beneath Adam Bock's flimsy play about an environmental disaster on a pig farm

  January 2, 2008

• Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge ably spoofs A Christmas Carol

  December 19, 2007

• Making a Killing

  July 25, 2007

• Franc D'Ambrosio's Hollywood

  August 8, 2007

• Save Sheldon

  August 1, 2007

• Play Right

  August 1, 2007

• What in Godot's Name?

  Is doing Beckett by the book better than taking liberties with the famously controlling writer's texts?

  May 9, 2007

• Professional Suicide

  Mark Jackson's play attempts to expose mediocrity, but winds up being mediocre itself

  February 21, 2007

• The Good East German

  Aka: When your hero is a Stasi spy

  February 14, 2007

• Mystery, He Wrote

  The playwright of one of these one-acts seems to have vanished without a trace

  November 8, 2006

• We've Got Issues

  Community theater worth watching

  November 1, 2006

• Pinter Love

  Spoofing for a great playwright

  October 4, 2006

• Encore

  Our critics weigh in on local theatre

  May 19, 2004

• Encore

  Our critics weigh in on local theatre

  May 12, 2004

• The Last Schwartz

  A Neil Simon play with Eugene O'Neill aspirations

  January 28, 2004

• Barely Alive

  How to make a funny optimist sound boring

  November 19, 2003

• The Rake in Hell

  Marin Shakespeare's Don Juan is strong in everything but its lead

  August 6, 2003

• Carved in Stone

  Four famous, dead, gay writers stage a hilarious catfight when a new young ghost arrives in their midst

  August 14, 2002

• Drama Queen

  A festival of one-acts pays tribute to perhaps America's greatest playwright, Tennessee Williams

  March 27, 2002

• "Love's Fire"

  Playwrights devise short plays based on Shakespeare sonnets

  February 27, 2002

• The Art of Interviewing

  I Think I Like Girls

  January 31, 2001

• Loser's Poker

  All bets are off in Patrick Marber's wry and pointed Dealer's Choice

  September 20, 2000

• Backstage

  September 17, 1997

• Stage 1996

  Five notable productions

  January 1, 1997

• Wet Blanket

  October 30, 1996

• Appetite for Destruction

  Forced humor swallows The Art of Dining; in Betrayal a house collapses under treacherous games

  March 22, 1995

• Amy Freed's comedy is far from spectacular in You, Nero

  May 27, 2009

• Actors Theatre Takes on Tennessee Williams' Camino Real to Bewildering Effect

  November 14, 2007

• A View from the Bridge

  July 22, 2009

• Also Playing

  August 5, 2009

• Also Playing

  August 12, 2009

• Also Playing

  August 19, 2009

• So what if August: Osage county won a Tony? It's still boring and bloated

  August 26, 2009