I can always tell whether a theater year has been good or not so good when I sit down to hammer out my Top 10 list. If I can summon five or more shows simply from memory, it’s a good year. This year’s entire list came almost entirely from memory (which is a feat in [...]
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2007 theater Top 10
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Posted by Chad Jones on 27 Dec 07 - 5 Comments
Review: `The Crowd You’re in With’
Archived in the category: Charles Shaw Robinson, Lorri Holt, Magic Theatre, Rebecca Gilman, local theater, plays, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 20 Nov 07 - 1 Comment
Opened Nov. 17, 2007 at the Magic Theatre
Gilman’s Crowd stands out
Four stars Pleasingly provocative
There aren’t many plays, especially new plays, that stick with you days after seeing them.
Rebecca Gilman’s The Crowd You’re in With, which had its world premiere last weekend at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre, is, in many ways, an astonishing play.
It seems so [...]
Review: `Richard III’
Archived in the category: Cal Shakes, Catherine Castellanos, Lorri Holt, Mark Rucker, Reg Rogers, Shakespeare, backstage, local theater, plays, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 03 Jun 07 - 0 Comments
opened June 2, 2007, Bruns Amphitheater, Orinda
Villainy rules in Cal Shakes’ masterful Richard III
three [1/2] stars A Richard to remember
This smart, funny man can’t be all bad, can he?
When we meet the man who will become King Richard III in California Shakespeare Theater’s season-opening Richard III, we’re completely charmed by him.
As he sheds his armor, [...]
