You’ve heard about monsters being unleashed and wreaking havoc in New York? Well, Beth Wilmurt was just such a monster. The San Francisco-based actor played a ferocious dragon in the final scenes of Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage, the Shotgun Players/Banana Bag & Bodice musical that headed to New York after its award-winning birth [...]
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Beth Wilmurt goes `Boating’ in Berkeley
Archived in the category: Art Street Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, Beth Wilmurt, Danny Wolohan, Gabe Marin, Joy Carlin, Mark Jackson, Shotgun Players, local theater, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 10 Jun 09 - 0 Comments
Theater review: `Faust, Part 1’
Posted by Chad Jones on 23 May 09 - 3 Comments
EXTENDED THROUGH JUNE 28! Mark Jackson (left) is Faust and Peter Ruocco is Mephistopheles in Jackson’s adaptation of Goethe’s Faust, Part 1, a Shotgun Players production at the Ashby Stage. Photos by Jessica Palopoli Will Faust ever learn? Deal with the devil and you’re gonna get burned«««« The devil’s curse, it turns out, is a [...]
Theater review: `Miss Julie’
Archived in the category: August Strindberg, Aurora Theatre Company, Lauren Grace, Mark Anderson Phillips, Mark Jackson, local theater, plays, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 10 Apr 09 - 3 Comments
EXTENDED THROUGH MAY 17 Mark Anderson Phillips is Jean the footman and Lauren Grace is Miss Julie, the title character in Mark Jackson’s production of the Strindberg classic at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre Company. Photos by David Allen Sex, class, intensity heat up Aurora’s `Miss Julie’««« ½ She looks at him dramatically and says, “Where did [...]
Review: “American $uicide”
Archived in the category: Beth Wilmurt, Delia MacDougall, Encore Theatre, Jud Williford, Liam Vincent, Mark Jackson, Z Plays, backstage, local theater, plays, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 16 Feb 07 - 0 Comments
(opened Feb. 12, 2007) Jackson, actors commit American $uicide at Thick House three stars Zesty satire If “American Idol” ended each episode with a bullet instead of wild applause, some of us might stop watching. And some of us might start. We love our reality TV in this country, and, truth be told, we love [...]
