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Chicago Theater Review: CONVERSATIONS ON A HOMECOMING (Strawdog Theatre Company) 27 Aug 2013 | 08:08 pm
WHERE BLARNEY GOES TO DIE Who’d have guessed that a 90-minute Irish play would be set in a bar where everyone gets sozzled and crocked much sooner that an hour and a half could ever allow? But in his...
Regional Theater Review: MY FAIR LADY (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) 25 Aug 2013 | 06:02 am
A LOVERLY LITTLE LADY The 1956 musical My Fair Lady, based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, was so transplendent in production values that the myriad subsequent revivals all strive for the same gl...
San Francisco Music Preview: SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY 2013-14 OPENING NIGHT GALA (Davies Symphony Hall) 23 Aug 2013 | 05:31 am
AUDRA MCDONALD MAKES A RARE VISIT TO SAN FRANCISCO As if San Francisco Symphony’s (SFS) annual opening night galas were not the most anticipated events of any year, SFS and Music Director Michael Til...
Film Review: THÉRÈSE (directed by Claude Miller) 20 Aug 2013 | 10:46 pm
WHEN BANAL IS SAID AND DONE Claude Miller’s final film Thérèse, based on François Mauriac’s novel Thérèse Desqueyroux, is a masterfully directed, superbly acted, richly photographed and beautifully d...
Film Review: SHORT TERM 12 (directed by Destin Daniel Cretton) 18 Aug 2013 | 01:10 am
YET TO COME TO TERM I’m sure Short Term 12, written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, was an earnest effort made with care and love and all the best intentions. I’m sure Mr. Cretton was touched ...
Bay Area Theater Review: NO MAN’S LAND (Berkeley Repertory Theatre) 12 Aug 2013 | 01:08 pm
A PRODUCTION OF AND IN NO MAN’S LAND It seems that people are forever cursed by their feeble attempts to make their lives neat and tidy. Whatever illusion of structure is created—a calendar, a grocer...
Chicago Theater Review: PINK MILK (Oracle Theatre and White Elephant) 11 Aug 2013 | 10:37 pm
HEROISM AND ESTROGEN Well worth seeing, this stylized 100-minute tour de theatre nonetheless requires—and rewards—an informed audience: It needs eager theatergoers already aware of the story it tells...
San Francisco Theater Review: CAN YOU DIG IT? THE ‘60’s – BACK DOWN EAST 14TH (The Marsh) 11 Aug 2013 | 09:36 am
YEAH, I CAN DIG IT The third installment of monologuist Don Reed’s autobiographical coming-of-age trilogy has been extended yet again at the Marsh, and following on the heels of this San Francisco ru...
Bay Area Theater Preview: LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN (California Shakespeare Theater) 10 Aug 2013 | 06:32 am
CAL SHAKES’ BIGGEST FAN The titular character in Oscar Wilde’s play Lady Windermere’s Fan is a vivacious young woman, married only two years, who never coughs or displays any other signs of illness. ...
San Francisco Theater Review: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (Boxcar Theatre) 9 Aug 2013 | 03:18 am
EXTRA INCHES East Berlin expat Hedwig was forced to leave a rather important bit of himself—later herself—behind the Wall in order to pass physical exams and immigrate to America with the G.I. of her...
