http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:51:00 -0700 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:54:42 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m11d21-Whos-Afraid-of-Virginia-Woolf-At-the-Actors-Theatre-in-San-Francisco?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner I always thought George and Martha had a good marriage. Their vicious fighting was their sexual activity and like good sex, it kept them together.  The four actors in the production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by the Actors&... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:54:42 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m11d21-Whos-Afraid-of-Virginia-Woolf-At-the-Actors-Theatre-in-San-Francisco?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m11d17-Mine-at-the-Sanford-Meisner-Theatre-NYC?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner Mine is Bekah Brunstetter’s new play set mostly in contemporary New York. Amelia McClain plays Annie, the single girl who makes espresso drinks by day and writes poetry by night and thinks about her two boyfriends all the time. M... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:04:41 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m11d17-Mine-at-the-Sanford-Meisner-Theatre-NYC?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m11d17-httpameringeryohecom?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner Horizon Theatre Rep’s ambitious staging of Camus’ 1944 The Misunderstanding in NYC achieves its dramatic objectives in spite of the script. Rafael De Mussa plays Jan, the prodigal son returning in disguise to surprise his family ... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:48:23 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m11d19-httpameringeryohecom?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m11d17-Rebecca-Campbell-at-Ameringer-McHenry-Yohe-Gallery-NYC?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner Rebecca Campbell at Ameringer McHenry Yohe Gallery NYC Rebecca Campbell’s paintings have a strong narrative that might be considered satiric. I am tempted to read the phrase ‘larval consumers’ into her work. Some of he... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:36:14 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m11d17-Rebecca-Campbell-at-Ameringer-McHenry-Yohe-Gallery-NYC?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m10d6-Mitch-Mikinos-at-the-Phoenix-Annex-in-San-Francisco?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner OK, I'm plugging my show this time! Jay Smith plays the offensive patriarch Mitch Mikinos pitted against his angst-ridden wife Ellen, played by Joann Young.  It's a family affair.  His son and daughter and cousin maneuver to ... Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:00:03 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m10d6-Mitch-Mikinos-at-the-Phoenix-Annex-in-San-Francisco?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m9d27-Brilliant-Traces-in-San-Francisco?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner Third Rail Power Trip has created a beautiful work of art in their production of Brilliant Traces by Cindy Lou Thompson. Set in an isolated cabin in contemporary Alaska,  Kerry Gudjohnsen plays an exquisite Roseanna, ephemeral, overflo... SF Theatre Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:33:02 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m9d27-Brilliant-Traces-in-San-Francisco?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m9d2-Happiness-at-Shotwell-Studio?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner I admire physical theatre with its action, its pushing-around of characters, fight-scenes, large gestures, exaggerated body-language and double-takes. Heather Harpham uses the physical dimension to illustrate and enlarge her very personal story ... Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:06:56 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m9d2-Happiness-at-Shotwell-Studio?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m8d6-Alls-Fair-at-Exit-on-Taylor?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner Women are clearly in charge of the stage in Antistrophe Ensemble’s update of the classical Return from Troy cycle.  Among the men, only Odysseus, who is conveniently absent, is respected.  Maria Giere’s skillful portrayal o... Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:57:24 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m8d6-Alls-Fair-at-Exit-on-Taylor?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m7d31-Sophocles-Electra-at-Stanford?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner In the form of tradition and duty, the opinions of the gods hang on Electra like great weights while her mother and sister frolic in the pleasant light of gratuitous choice. Courtney Walsh plays a powerfully regal and cunning Queen Clytemnestra ... Classics Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:20:25 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m7d14-Sophocles-Electra-at-Stanford?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m7d18-The-Unexpected-Man?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner  ‘Why are desires so extravagant when compared to what actually happens?’  Why are things so unbalanced and uneven, so lop-sided? French playwright Yasmina Reza’s asymmetrical 1998 script reveals a proud, slightl... Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:18:10 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m7d18-The-Unexpected-Man?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m7d11-View-from-the-Bridge?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner Arthur Miller’s 1955 script details Eddie Carbone’s steady and logical decline from all the virtues of generosity, through doubt and silence, to violence and then to betrayal and to sin and consummate tragic violence.In Off Broadway West&... Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:11:03 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m7d11-View-from-the-Bridge?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m7d10-Maidrids-Bow?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner In Maidrid's Bow, 9 actors play 22 characters using costume changes, masks, funny fake beards and complete personality transformations to lead the audience through the hilarious farce. The effeminate men live on one side of the ri... San Francisco Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:47:40 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m7d10-Maidrids-Bow?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m6d25-Rumors-in-Pacifica?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner Pacifica Spindrift Players proves that nobody really needs to knows anything in Neil Simon's comedy.  A scandal occurs in an off-stage bedroom and the early party goers must keep it from the later arrivals.  Appearances must be kept up at a... Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:43:29 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m6d25-Rumors-in-Pacifica?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m5d29-Betrayal?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner Harold Pinter’s Betrayal begins at the end when three literary intellectuals uncover their erotic secret, leading the audience to enquire how they got in the situation in the first place, and the play runs backwards in time toward its origins.&... Harold Pinter Fri, 29 May 2009 01:34:49 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m5d29-Betrayal?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m5d23-Not-a-Genuine-Black-Man?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner The solo performance as a dramatic art form is well-established.  Caught in the social machinery, the character is an ordinary person who combats huge imperial forces but, being ordinary, must use ordinary means and should be of good humor so he... San Francisco Sat, 23 May 2009 20:46:22 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m5d29-Not-a-Genuine-Black-Man?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m5d22-Krapps-Last-Tape?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner Samuel Beckett’s characters are always alone.  Even when two or three are on stage they are alone together.  Time ticks along year after year and the first thing to go is the mind and the memory. Cutting Ball’s Krapp’... SF Theatre Sat, 23 May 2009 00:31:19 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m5d22-Krapps-Last-Tape?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m5d21-Faust-Part-1?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner  Shotgun Players performs Mark Jackson’s free adaptation of Goethe’s Faust, Part 1 at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley, an artistic examination of the self-aware human. Mark Jackson’s bold script begins with a monologue th... Classics Berkeley Thu, 21 May 2009 01:11:14 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m5d21-Faust-Part-1?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m5d10-The-Lieutenant-of-Inishmore?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner  As theatre critic, my job description is to report on what I see of a stage production and see if it allows me to see into the play.  A production is like a window that allows me (or not) to see what’s inside. The Lieutenan... Regional Theatre McDonagh Sun, 10 May 2009 12:33:50 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m5d10-The-Lieutenant-of-Inishmore?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m5d3-Good-News-from-Darkroom-Productions?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner  We count on story to help us make sense of the world.  In our post-modern lives, we are assaulted by legions of stories, each attempting to determine what we should buy, who to vote for, where to travel, how to think and what to think abou... Vallejo Sun, 03 May 2009 12:03:09 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m5d3-Good-News-from-Darkroom-Productions?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m4d28-Harold-Pinters-Homecoming?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner  A stage production should be given all the rights and privileges of a person you have just met.  If we are to judge a person at all, it should be on what the person is trying to do rather than on what we expect of that person.  P... Harold Pinter San Francisco Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:45:06 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7599-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner~y2009m4d28-Harold-Pinters-Homecoming?cid=exrss-SF-Community-Theater-Examiner