While he comes closer to pure evil than anyone else in Shakespeare, the villain in Othello is often called within the play itself “honest…
Updating Shakespeare seems doubly condescending: the implication that we need help relating to the text, and that the text needs to be made relevant….
People don't last long in Richard III. Kings can scarcely enjoy a moment's happiness on their thrones before their lives become futile efforts at…
Beach Blanket Babylon: Steve Silver's musical revue spoofs pop culture with extravagant costumes. Wednesdays-Sundays. $25-$130. Club Fugazi,678 Green (at Powell), 421-4222. Big City Improv:…
Exit, Pursued by a Bear Crowded Fire Theater Aug. 24-27 & Sept. 7-17 at BoxcarPlayhouse, 505 Natoma (at Sixth St.), S.F.$15-$35; 255-7846 or www.crowdedfire.org…
A girl in a long dress floats motionless in a forest pool, flowers drifting on the surface of the water around her. Her eyes…
Shakespeare wrote some weak endings in his time, but none so weak as what you'll find in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Considered by…
Now that Chris Adrian has graduated from Harvard Divinity School, is just about done with his pediatric hematology-oncology fellowship at UCSF, and is no…
It's a curious choice to paint one of Shakespeare's bawdiest comedies with the moody grandeur of a 1940s film noir, but one that proves…
We've told you that the African-American Shakespeare Company (as its name suggests) likes to take familiar productions and turn them on their heads. That's…
