Young love shines fiercely in Curtain Theatre's "Romeo and Juliet": My review is in today's Marin Independent Journal. https://www.marinij.com/2023/08/16/theater-review-young-love-shines-fiercely-in-curtain-theatre-show/
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Veteran Mill Valley actor Naomi Newman embodies an activist-poet’s life onstage: My interview with Newman about her new play "Between Worlds" with Yiddish Theatre Ensemble is in the Marin Independent Journal. https://www.marinij.com/2023/08/09/veteran-mill-valley-actor-naomi-newman-embodies-an-activist-poets-life-onstage/
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Knockout "Twelfth Night" closes Marin Shakespeare Company season: My review is in today's Marin Independent Journal. https://www.marinij.com/2023/08/09/theater-review-knockout-twelfth-night-closes-marin-shakes-season/ #theater #sftheatre #shakespeare #theatre

A long-awaited SF return for Cirque du Soleil's "Corteo": I talked to creator Daniele Finzi Pasca for The Mercury News. https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/08/04/cirque-du-soleil-corteo-makes-a-long-awaited-sf-return/
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Tina Turner musical lands in Bay Area for extended stay: For The Mercury News I talked to actors Naomi Rodgers and Zurin Villanueva about sharing the role of Tina in Tina Broadway, coming to BroadwaySF and Broadway San Jose.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/07/31/tina-turner-musical-lands-in-bay-area-for-extended-stay/
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Sisters return to Shakespeare at Marin Shakespeare Company: I talked with Bridgette and Charisse Loriaux about working together on "Twelfth Night" for the Marin Independent Journal.
https://www.marinij.com/2023/08/02/sisters-return-to-shakespeares-ever-popular-siblings-comedy-at-marin-shakes/
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Mime Troupe takes Tenderloin on tour in musical "Breakdown": My review is in the Marin Independent Journal
https://www.marinij.com/2023/07/19/theater-review-mime-troupe-takes-tenderloin-on-tour-in-musical-breakdown/
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My article on the new Berkeley Shakespeare Company's new "Midsummer Night's Dream" musical is in the East Bay Times:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/07/12/new-berkeley-shakespeare-troupe-debuts-a-new-midsummer-musical/

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Dynamic dancing drives this S.F. "Chorus Line": My review of the San Francisco Playhouse production is in The Mercury News. https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/07/06/review-dynamic-dancing-drives-this-s-f-chorus-line/
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Tony winner confesses an undercover life onstage in Berkeley: My review of Ari'el Stachel's "Out of Character" at Berkeley Repertory Theatre is in The Mercury News.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/06/30/review-tony-winner-confesses-an-undercover-life-onstage-in-berkeley/
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At Berkeley Repertory Theatre: One man’s odyssey to hide who he was after national tragedy. I talked to actor/writer Ari'el Stachel and director Tony Taccone about Stachel's autobiographical solo show "Out of Character" in The Mercury News. https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/06/23/at-berkeley-rep-one-mans-odyssey-to-hide-who-he-was-after-national-tragedy/ #theater #newplay #theatre #sftheatre

It was great to chat with choreographer-performer Nicole Helfer (also the director of this summer's Mountain Play) about her role in San Francisco Playhouse's "A Chorus Line" for the Marin Independent Journal.
https://www.marinij.com/2023/06/21/former-west-marin-choreographer-takes-center-stage-at-san-francisco-playhouse/
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New review in the Marin Independent Journal: Marin Shakespeare Company relaunches with a dynamic "Hamlet"
https://www.marinij.com/2023/06/21/theater-review-marin-shakes-relaunches-with-a-dynamic-hamlet/
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SF’s Lorraine Hansberry Theatre has a new play about … Lorraine Hansberry. (And James Baldwin. And Nina Simone.) Writer/actor Traci Tolmaire and director/cocreator Margo Hall on “In the Evening by the Moonlight" in The Mercury News: https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/06/12/sfs-lorraine-hansberry-theatres-new-play-is-about-lorraine-hanbserry/ #newplay #theater #theatre #sftheatre

Fairy-tale mashup brings musical magic to Mount Tamalpais: My review of the Mountain Play's "Into the Woods" is in today's Marin Independent Journal.
https://www.marinij.com/2023/05/24/theater-review-fairy-tale-mashup-brings-musical-magic-to-mount-tamalpais/
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Cooking for Qaddafi whips up drama at arts fest: I talked to performer/director Lynn Lohr about her late husband Lance Belville's play "Qaddafi's Cook" at San Francisco International Arts Festival in today's Marin Independent Journal. https://www.marinij.com/2023/05/24/cooking-for-qaddafi-whips-up-drama-at-arts-fest/
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I reviewed San Francisco Playhouse's pitch-perfect production of the David Henry Hwang comedy "Chinglish" for The Mercury News: https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/05/18/review-in-chinglish-at-sf-playhouse-mistranslation-spells-hilarity/
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Golden Gate Park becomes a wild Wonderland in immersive "Alice": My review of We Players' latest walk-along theater piece is in The Mercury News
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/05/04/golden-gate-park-becomes-a-wild-wonderland-in-immersive-alice/
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This one has a whole lot going for it, but ultimately I wasn't quite feeling it.
New version of "Cyrano" at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre Company misses by a nose: My review is in The Mercury News.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/24/review-new-staging-of-cyrano-at-berkeleys-aurora-theatre-misses-by-a-nose/
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It's time for a good new-fashioned revenge play: My review of Oakland Theater Project's "Is God Is" is in The Mercury News. https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/19/review-black-western-revenge-road-trip-plays-on-oakland-stage/
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