December 14, 2015
Agatha Christie kills at Shotgun Players
Shotgun Players celebrate the season with murder
In 1969 on a European trip I saw a play in London that had been running continuously there for seventeen...
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December 5, 2015
Word for Word in literal Holiday High Jinx
Bums, Broads and Broadway
Word for Word performs a beautifully choreographed program with three short stories at Z Below this holiday season. And when I say choreographed I mean that in every sense of the word.
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November 28, 2015
The Jewelry Box: A Christmas gift
The Christmas season is notorious for old chestnuts, like The Nutcracker and Dickens’ Christmas Carol, It’s a Wonderful Life and White Christmas. “Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer”. OMG. – Christmas carols. They...
November 27, 2015
Mummenschanz at Cal Performances
The playfulness of silence
Garbed entirely in velvety black unitards, the four performers who currently comprise Mummenschanz delighted an audience of the perpetually young at Cal Performances Zellerbach Hall this past...
November 19, 2015
Cavalia’s “Odysseo” at AT&T Park
A stunning odyssey of horse and rider
With 65 horses, 45 riders and acrobats, 10,000 tons of rock, earth and sand, and a lighting rig to put the Rolling Stones to shame, Odysseo rode into town last...
November 14, 2015
“Date Night at Pet Emergency” at The Marsh Theatre
Storytelling.
It must be one of our oldest social engagements. Children practice it, unwinding long and uninspired retellings of movies they have seen and occasionally...