February 20, 2016
“Totem and Taboo” at Central Works
“The Age of the Father is over”
On October 1, 1955, The Honeymooners debuted on national television with an episode titled “TV or not TV”. The story introduced a...
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February 18, 2016
“The Unfortunates” at ACT’s The Strand Theater
Our unfortunate collective violence
This past weekend ACT opened a new play at The Strand. Referred to in the program as a musical, The Unfortunates is set in wartime,...
February 15, 2016
World premiere of “Aubergine” at Berkeley Rep
Berkeley Rep serves up a play about food and death
Food. I like to...
February 5, 2016
“Ondine” at The Cutting Ball Theater
All at sea ...
Katharine Sherman’s retelling of the story of Ondine opened this past week at The Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco. The play is part of this black box theater’s well-conceived experimental...
January 26, 2016
Satchmo at ACT’s Geary Theater
It’s hard to know where to begin describing Satchmo at the Waldorf. All the explanatory terms fall flat in giving an overall impression of this intelligently written and brilliantly acted play about...
January 15, 2016
“Sisters of Invention” book arts show at SF Center for the Book
Book arts: playful mediums, dream-like messages.
The flowering of a genre is well illustrated in “Sisters of Invention,” a show that ended last Sunday, Jan. 10 at SF’s Center for the Book. Following the 45-year-long careers of three pioneering book artists – Jaime Robles, Sas Colby and Betsy Davids – this show asks deep questions and provides some delightfully small answers.
Among them is the seductive power of book arts in the...