Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Questions Workers’ Choices by Patricia L. Morin Watching ACT’s streaming version of “Gloria,” I miss being a participant—there’s nothing like live theater. But I enjoyed how MacArthur Fellow playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins explores young workers competing in a toxic show-biz office, like Entertainment Today. He drops us into a smartly designed sterile office…
Shakespeare’s Dark Comedy Illuminates #MeToo, #Resist by Barry David Horwitz At Marin Shakespeare Company, a rich complement of fine comic actors bring on the fun in “Measure for Measure,” a tragi-comedy. First, we admire the two magnificent ancient towers flanking the vast outdoor stage. Then, we admire the lovely Tudor brickwork that swings out…
Millennial Notes Annie Elias Unleashes Tenderloin Force by Evelyn Arevalo & Carly Van Liere Cutting Ball Theatre starts their new season with a blast with “Prime Cuts” from their hit 2012 docu-drama “The Tenderloin Tour.” Their Taylor Street theater, in the heart of the S.F. Tenderloin, tells us poignant, visceral tales about real, local…
Chisa Hutchinson Celebrates Two Black Women in Crisis by Barry David Horwitz Two black women are struggling over life and death. One is a wealthy woman in hospice care who is dying of cancer. She can’t die fast enough for to suit herself, so she tries to get help from her nurse. Her nurse,…